Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Leiopicus medius)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, temperate forest. From sea-level - 2,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Albania (B), Armenia (B), Austria (B) (NB), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Belarus (B) (NB), Belgium (B) (NB), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B) (NB), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B) (NB), Czech Republic (B) (NB), Estonia (B), France (B) (NB), Georgia (B), Germany (B) (NB), Greece (B) (NB), Hungary (B) (NB), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B) (NB), Italy (B) (NB), Latvia (B) (NB), Lithuania (B) (NB), Luxembourg (B) (NB), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B) (NB), Moldova [Republic of] (B) (NB), Montenegro (B), Netherlands Antilles (B), Poland (B), Romania (B) (NB), Russia (European) (B), Serbia (B), Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (B) (NB), Slovenia (B) (NB), Spain (B) (NB), Sweden (E) (B), Switzerland (B) (NB), Turkey (B) (NB), Ukraine (B) (NB).

Vagrant to Denmark (E), Liechtenstein, Portugal, Russia (Central Asian).

Population
Estimated population is 420,000 - 930,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

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

Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius) [XC409223]
by Yoann Blanchon from Buda Hills, Budapest, Hungary (call)

Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius) [XC173857]
by Antoni Knycha\u0142a from K\u0105tna, Ole\u015bnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (drumming, song)

Subspecies
Superficial similarity to White-backed Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) may suggest possible relationship, although this not supported by available genetic data. May be related to Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) superspecies, but there is little evidence. Variation is largely clinal. Other named subspecies are lilianae (north-western Spain), splendidior (south-eastern Europe to Greece and Turkey) and laubmanni (southern Transcaucasia), all regarded as unacceptable.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

medius (Linnaeus, 1758) - North-western Spain and France north-east to southern Sweden (recently extinct), Estonia, western Russia and Ukraine, and south-east to Italy and the Balkans.
caucasicus Bianchi, 1905 - Northern Turkey, Caucasus and Transcaucasia; probably this subspecies in north-western Iran.
anatoliae (Hartert, 1912) - Western and southern Asia Minor.
sanctijohannis (Blanford, 1873) - Zagros Mts in south-western Iran.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Leiopicus medius) - 10 files

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