Woodpeckers (Picidae) - HBW 7
Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
French: Pic épeiche
German: Buntspecht
Spanish: Pico Picapinos
Other common names: Greater Pied Woodpecker
Taxonomy: Picus major Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Forms a superspecies with D. syriacus, D. leucopterus, D. assimilis and D. himalayensis. Hybridizes rarely with first two, and named race tianshanicus from C Tien Shan considered to refer to offspring of mixed pairs of present species and D. leucopterus; has also interbred with more distantly related D. leucotos. Variation over vast range is largely clinal, with races intergrading extensively and many intermediate populations. Many additional named races thus not certainly identifiable, and considere.. View all taxonomy...
Taxonomy: Picus major Linnaeus,1758. Sweden.
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Forms a superspecies with D. syriacus, D. leucopterus, D. assimilis and D. himalayensis. Hybridizes rarely with first two, and named race tianshanicus from C Tien Shan considered to refer to offspring of mixed pairs of present species and D. leucopterus; has also interbred with more distantly related D. leucotos. Variation over vast range is largely clinal, with races intergrading extensively and many intermediate populations. Many additional named races thus not certainly identifiable, and considered unacceptable: anglicus (Britain), italiae (Pyrenees E to Switzerland and Italy), parroti (Corsica), lynesi (Atlas Mts in Morocco), candidus (S Russia, Romania, Bulgaria), paphlagoniae (N Turkey), tenuirostris (Crimea, Caucasus, Transcaucasia), tscherskii (Ussuriland and Sakhalin), hondoensis (N & C Honshu and smaller islands), beicki (Gansu, in W China), mandarinus (S & SE China) and hainanus (Hainan I). Fourteen subspecies recognized.
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Forms a superspecies with D. syriacus, D. leucopterus, D. assimilis and D. himalayensis. Hybridizes rarely with first two, and named race tianshanicus from C Tien Shan considered to refer to offspring of mixed pairs of present species and D. leucopterus; has also interbred with more distantly related D. leucotos. Variation over vast range is largely clinal, with races intergrading extensively and many intermediate populations. Many additional named races thus not certainly identifiable, and considered unacceptable: anglicus (Britain), italiae (Pyrenees E to Switzerland and Italy), parroti (Corsica), lynesi (Atlas Mts in Morocco), candidus (S Russia, Romania, Bulgaria), paphlagoniae (N Turkey), tenuirostris (Crimea, Caucasus, Transcaucasia), tscherskii (Ussuriland and Sakhalin), hondoensis (N & C Honshu and smaller islands), beicki (Gansu, in W China), mandarinus (S & SE China) and hainanus (Hainan I). Fourteen subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- major (Linnaeus, 1758) - Scandinavia and W Siberia E to Urals and S to N Poland and N Ukraine.
- brevirostris (Reichenbach, 1854) - from W Siberia E to lower R Amur, Manchuria and Sea of Okhotsk, and S to C Tien Shan and Mongolia.
- kamtschaticus (Dybowski, 1883) - Kamchatka and N Okhotsk coast.
- major (Linnaeus, 1758) - Scandinavia and W Siberia E to Urals and S to N Poland and N Ukraine.
- brevirostris (Reichenbach, 1854) - from W Siberia E to lower R Amur, Manchuria and Sea of Okhotsk, and S to C Tien Shan and Mongolia.
- kamtschaticus (Dybowski, 1883) - Kamchatka and N Okhotsk coast.
- pinetorum (C. L. Brehm, 1831) - Britain, France and C Europe E to R Volga and S to Italy, Balkans, Turkey, S Ukraine and Caucasus.
- hispanus (Schlüter, 1908) - Iberia.
- harterti Arrigoni, 1902 - Sardinia and Corsica.
- canariensis (König, 1889) - Tenerife, in Canary Is.
- thanneri le Roi, 1911 - Gran Canaria.
- mauritanus (C. L. Brehm, 1855) - Morocco.
- numidus (Malherbe, 1843) - N Algeria and Tunisia.
- poelzami (Bogdanov, 1879) - S Caspian region and Transcaspia.
- japonicus (Seebohm, 1883) - C & E Manchuria to Sakhalin and Kuril Is, and S to Korea and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Tsushima).
- cabanisi (Malherbe, 1854) - S Manchuria S to E Myanmar, N Laos, N Vietnam (NW Tonkin), SE China and Hainan.
- stresemanni (Rensch, 1924) - C China (E Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan) S to SE Tibet, NE India, W & N Myanmar and Yunnan.
- Least Concern
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A male at anvil Linderud Gård, Oslo & Akershus, Norway (major)
Eric Roualet 21 October 2005 1 year ago 18 sec 4.5 -
A male bringing prey at nest cavity, and feeding chicks Essonne, France (pinetorum)
Julien Rochefort 14 May 2007 2 years ago 39 sec 4.4 -
A male Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) ogles at a Blue Tit’s tree hollow. Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Thomas Voekler 8 May 2009 43 weeks ago 22 sec 4.4 -
A male with food,on a tree Tajuña, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Javier Ortas 28 May 2006 1 year ago 31 sec 4.3 -
A male feeding a chick at the entrance of the nest hole Forêt de Fontainebleau, France (pinetorum)
Julien Rochefort 28 May 2007 2 years ago 21 sec 4.3 -
A female and then a male bringing preys at nest cavity, feeding chicks and flying away Essonne, France (pinetorum)
Julien Rochefort 14 May 2007 2 years ago 45 sec 4.2
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adult male Pierre-Buffière, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France
AurélienAudevard 28 December 2008 11 weeks ago 4.3 -
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Female arriving at nest: hembra llegando al nido Asturias, Spain (hispanus)
José M. Formentí 10 June 2010 17 weeks ago 4.3 -
Female, close-up, bird visiting an small water pool Tenerife, Canary Islands (canariensis)
Thorsten Stegmann 23 November 2009 11 weeks ago 4.2 -
female on a dead branch Tenerife, Canary Islands (canariensis)
Georges Olioso 23 March 2009 43 weeks ago 4 -
Female on a bracnch near a feeder. Bedfordshire, England, UK (pinetorum)
Mark Gurney 9 March 2008 1 year ago 4 -
adult male Pierre-Buffière, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France
AurélienAudevard 28 December 2008 11 weeks ago 3.7
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Begging calls of chicks London, England, UK
(pinetorum)
Stuart Fisher 20 May 2007 50 weeks ago 4.7 -
A bird alarm calling Belgrad Ormanı, Istanbul, Turkey
(pinetorum)
Stuart Fisher 27 December 2009 5 weeks ago 4 -
Drumming London, England, UK
(pinetorum)
Stuart Fisher 16 March 2009 51 weeks ago 3
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