White-backed Woodpecker © flickr.com

Vagrant to Belgium, Netherlands Antilles.

Other described subspecies are uralensis (western Siberia), voznesenskii (eastern Siberia and Kamchatka), saghalinensis (Sakhalin), ussuriensis (Ussuriland and north-eastern China), sinicus (Korea) and quelpartensis (Quelpart I), all considered inadequately differentiated or representing intergrades.

The following 12 subspecies are recognised:

• leucotos (Bechstein, 1803)   -  Western Norway, Sweden, Finland and Poland southern in Europe to eastern Switzerland, Austria, northern Serbia and Carpathian Mts, and east through southern taiga to Kamchatka, Sakhalin, north-eastern China and Korea.
• lilfordi (Sharpe & Dresser, 1871)   -  Pyrenees, central Italy, the Balkans and Peloponnese, Turkey (NAnatolia, Taurus Mts), Caucasus and Transcaucasia.
• subcirris (Stejneger, 1886)   -  Hokkaido (northern Japan).
• stejnegeri (Kuroda, Nagamichi, 1921)   -  Northern Honshu (north-central Japan).
• namiyei (Stejneger, 1886)   -  Southern Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and Quelpart I (Cheju-do).
• takahashii (Kuroda & Mori, 1920)   -  Dagelet I (Ullung do), off eastern Korea.
• owstoni (Ogawa, 1905)   -  Amami-oshima (northern Ryukyu Is). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Amami Woodpecker (Dendrocopos owstoni).
• tangi Cheng, 1956   -  Central China (Sichuan).
• fohkiensis (Buturlin, 1908)   -  South-eastern China (Fujian).
• insularis (Gould, 1863)   -  Taiwan.
• uralensis (Malherbe, 1860)   -  Western Ural Mts. to Lake Baikal.
• quelpartensis (Kuroda & Mori, 1918)   -  Jeju-do (off South Korea).

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