Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius [Linnaeus, 1758] |
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Order:
Piciformes
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Family: Picidae |
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BTO Codes:
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EURING No: 8630 | |
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Number in Britain:
Unavailable
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Conservation Status:
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Status in UK:
(-) Doesn't Occur
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Subspecies:
recorded in Britain (of 2 subsp. in the world)
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Length:
51 cm
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Wingspan: 66 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 330 g
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Scientific name from:
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Gr.: druos=oak tree + kopos=cutter and L.: martius=martial |
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World Distribution:
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Europe, n&c Asia |
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Habitat:
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Coniferous & mixed forest |
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Diet:
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Ants and wood-boring beetles |
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Other Names |
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Danish:
Sortspætte
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Dutch: Zwarte specht |
| Finnish: Palokärki | French: Pic noir |
| German: Schwarzspecht | Hungarian: Fekete harkály |
| Icelandic: Svartspæta | Irish: |
| Italian: Picchio nero | Norwegian: Svartspett |
| Polish: Dzieciol czarny | Portuguese: Peto-preto |
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Spanish:
Pito negro
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Swedish: Spillkråka |
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For More Information... |
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Books and Monographs:
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| Gorman, G. 2011 The black woodpecker: a monograph on Dryocopus martius Lynx Edicions, Barcelona [598.776 GOR] | |
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Wikipedia entry
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BirdLife species page
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