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 LC    Black Woodpecker* Id (Atlas):
    Dryocopus martius

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Black Woodpecker, Great Black Woodpecker

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
40 - 46 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Mature northern taiga, southern montane deciduous forests with mature tall trees.

Range (Guide)
Albania (B), Andorra (B) (NB), Armenia (B), Austria (B) (NB), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Belarus (B) (NB), Belgium (B) (NB), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B) (NB), China (mainland) (B), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B) (NB), Czech Republic (B) (NB), Denmark (B) (NB), Estonia (B) (NB), Finland (B) (NB), France (B) (NB), Georgia (B), Germany (B) (NB), Greece (B) (NB), Hungary (B) (NB), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Italy (B) (NB), Japan (B), Kazakhstan (B), Latvia (B) (NB), Liechtenstein (B) (NB), Lithuania (B) (NB), Luxembourg (B) (NB), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B) (NB), Moldova [Republic of] (B) (NB), Mongolia (B), Montenegro (B), Netherlands Antilles (B) (NB), North Korea (B), Norway (B), Poland (B), Romania (B) (NB), Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B) (NB), Russia (European) (B), Serbia (B), Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (B) (NB), Slovenia (B) (NB), South Korea (B), Spain (B) (NB), Sweden (B) (NB), Switzerland (B) (NB), Turkey (B) (NB), Ukraine (B) (NB).

Vagrant to Portugal.

Population
Estimated population is 5,000,000 - 15,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Ants and woodboring beetles. Ocasionally fruit and birds' eggs.

Voice
Loud, far carrying drumming. Loud melodious, repated notes, often uttered in flight.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (498)...)

 
Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) [XC881482]
     by Jarek Matusiak from Gmina Giby (near G\u0142\u0119boki Br\u00f3d), sejne\u0144ski, Podlaskie, Poland (song)

 
Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) [XC871125]
     by Bodo Sonnenburg from Szokolya, V\u00e1c District, Pest County, Hungary (call, flight call)

Nest
In an excavated hole in a tree or telegraph pole.

Eggs (Guide)
4 - 6; smooth, glossy, white.

Subspecies
Size varies clinally, decreasing from north to southern and, in Asia, from east to west. Birds from southern Europe east to Transcaucasia sometimes separated as subspecies pinetorum (slightly smaller than northern breeders) and those from eastern Asia as reichenowi (on average larger than western Asian populations), but much overlap occurs in measurements, and racial separation not warranted.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • martius (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Europe from Spain, France and Scandinavia (north to Arctic Circle), south to Balkans and northern Turkey, and eastern in broad belt across Asian taiga (south to Altai Mts, northern Mongolia) to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Japan (Hokkaido, extreme northern Honshu), north-eastern China and Korea. Also Caucasus and northern Iran.
  • khamensis (Buturlin, 1908)   -  South-western China and Tibet (Qinghai south to north-western Yunnan).



References
See References.

The Reader's Digest Book of British Birds 1980, 3rd Edition, Drive Publications Ltd ISBN 0 340 25308 8
Birds in Colour Campbell, B., 1960, Penguin Books Ltd
The Pocket Guide to Nest and Eggs Fitter, R.S.R., 1954, Collins
RSPB Handbook of British Birds Holden, P., Cleeves, T., 2002, A & C Black ISBN 0 7136 5713 8
Birds of Britain and Europe Sterry, P., et al., 2001, AA Publishing ISBN 0 7495 3068 5
The Popular Handbook of British Birds Hollom, P.A.D., 1973, H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd ISBN 0 85493 002 7


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