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White Woodpecker
The white woodpecker (''Melanerpes candidus'') is a South American species of woodpecker (family Picidae) native to the wooded grasslands of Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. It is a bright white bird with black wings and a distinctive small bright yellow eye patch. The IUCN has rated it as a "least-concern species". Taxonomy The species was first described as ''Melanerpes candidus'' in 1796 by the French naturalist Bernhard Christian Otto, the type locality being Cayenne. It is sometimes placed in its own genus ''Leuconerpes'', but shows many similarities in morphology to ''Melanerpes''. No subspecies are known (monotypic). Description This woodpecker grows to a length of and weighs around , with a range of . It is one of the largest ''Melanerpes'' woodpeckers along with the Jamaican woodpecker and Lewis' woodpecker. The mantle, back, wings and tail of the adult are black, the flight feathers being brownish-black above and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Christian Otto
Bernhard Christian Otto (6 March 1745 – 5 November 1835) was a German doctor, professor of medicine, naturalist and economist. Otto was born in Niepars near Stralsund to Pastor Gotthard Joachim Jacob Otto of Niepars and his wife Agnese Regina, daughter of Pastor Dionisius Casper Droysen (died 1765) of Dersekow. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and received a doctorate in 1771. In 1772 he became a teacher at the Greifswald medical faculty where he gave lectures in surgery and delivery for midwives and surgeons. From 1776 he also offered lectures in natural history and became a professor of natural history and economics in 1781, while also managing the botanical garden. He also served as rector at the University of Greifswald before moving to Frankfurt (Oder), Frankfurt as a professor of medicine at the European University Viadrina, Alma Mater Viadrina in 1788. In 1792 he took up the position vacated upon the death of professor Peter Immanuel Hartmann. He retired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
