Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
French: Pic noir German: Schwarzspecht Spanish: Picamaderos Negro
Other common names: Great Black Woodpecker
Taxonomy:
Picus martius Linnaeus, 1758, Europe = Sweden.
Size varies clinally, decreasing from N to S and, in Asia, from E to W; birds from S Europe E to Transcaucasia sometimes separated as race pinetorum (slightly smaller than N breeders) and those from E Asia as reichenowi (on average larger than W Asian populations), but much overlap occurs in measurements, and racial separation not warranted. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- martius (Linnaeus, 1758) - Europe from Spain, France and Scandinavia (N to Arctic Circle), S to Balkans and N Turkey, and E in broad belt across Asian taiga (S to Altai Mts, N Mongolia) to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Japan (Hokkaido, extreme N Honshu), NE China and Korea; also Caucasus and N Iran.
- khamensis (Buturlin, 1908) - SW China and Tibet (Qinghai S to NW Yunnan).
- Least Concern
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A bird drilling a trunk and eating larvas. capture scenes replayed at slow motion. Sceaux, Île-de-France, France
Robert Mouchard 3 May 2008 9 weeks ago 1 min 51 sec 5 -
An adult female feeding the chicks in the nest Germany (martius)
Helmut Sütsch 2003 5 years ago 21 sec 4.8 -
An adult female feeding three chicks in the nest Germany (martius)
Helmut Sütsch 2003 5 years ago 36 sec 4.7 -
An adult female calling, entering the nest, and then flying away Germany (martius)
Helmut Sütsch 2003 5 years ago 17 sec 4.4 -
A male preening Forêt de Fontainebleau, France (martius)
Julien Rochefort 23 April 2007 2 years ago 45 sec 4.4 -
An adult male feeding the chicks, calling, and entering the nest Germany (martius)
Helmut Sütsch 2003 5 years ago 1 min 8 sec 4.3
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taken early spring in local woodland Hungary
Juhasz Tibor 1 March 2004 41 weeks ago 3
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Typicall calls. Forêt de Rambouillet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
(martius)
Julien Rochefort 19 October 2009 9 weeks ago 4 -
Grown nestlings begging for food from the nesting hole, both adults answering nearby. Bulgaria
(martius)
Iva Hristova 6 June 2009 9 weeks ago 3
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