The Sulu Pygmy Woodpecker or Sulu Woodpecker(Dendrocopos ramsayi) is a species of bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 in the Picidae

Picidae

The woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks are a family, Picidae, of near-passerine birds. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia and New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions...

 family. Formerly, it was included in the Philippine Woodpecker

Philippine Woodpecker

The Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker , also known as the Philippine Woodpecker, is a species of bird in the woodpecker family . Its local name in Kapampangan is Anluage.-Taxonomy:...

 (D. maculatus). But it actually seems to form a superspecies

Superspecies

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 with this and the Sulawesi Woodpecker

Sulawesi Woodpecker

The Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker , also known as the Sulawesi Woodpecker, is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist mountains.-References:* BirdLife International...

 (D. temminckii), as part of the large D. moluccensis group which ranges throughout eastern Asia.

It is endemic to the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. Its natural habitat

Habitat

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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest

Forest

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s, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and arable land

Arable land

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. It is threatened by habitat loss.