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Arabian woodpecker, a Common card
The Arabian woodpecker or Sarat woodpecker, is a bird species of the family Picidae, native to the Sarawat Mountains of Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 46
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 80
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,300
Power 80 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Arabian woodpecker quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Arabian woodpecker card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is the only woodpecker that breeds on the Arabian ______.
Answer
Peninsula. It is the only woodpecker that breeds on the Arabian Peninsula. From the Arabian woodpecker article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Andrew Sabin. Andrew Sabin 58 · Virginio Merola 54 · Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary 51 · Arabian woodpecker 46 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is the only woodpecker that breeds on the Arabian Peninsula.
- This species was first described in 1935 by the American naturalist George Latimer Bates and the Scottish zoologist Norman Boyd Kinnear, the scientific name being proposed by their occasional co-worker, the British Arabist St John Philby, in honour of his wife Dora.
- Some taxonomic authorities continue to place the species in Dendrocopos, while others place it genus Dendropicos.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Arabian woodpecker article was read about 1,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 46 and blocks with 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Arabian woodpecker
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Broken Hill HospitalCommon · Society · ATK 53 DEF 27
- Georganne MolineCommon · Society · ATK 50 DEF 30
- Jon DiSalvatoreCommon · Society · ATK 57 DEF 23
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Arabian woodpecker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : James Eaton, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
