Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos minor) - HBW 7, p. 477
French: Pic épeichette
German: Kleinspecht
Spanish: Pico Menor
Other common names: Lesser Pied Woodpecker
Taxonomy: Picus minor Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Related to D. canicapillus and D. kizuki. Recent genetic data suggest also a link to North American “Picoides pubescens group”. Races intergrade extensively over species’ huge range, with many intermediate populations; numerous additional races have been described, but often on rather weak grounds, and differences are often part of a clinal variation. Named races not accepted include hispaniae (Spain), jordansi (C European mountains), serbicus (Montenegro), wagneri (Romania), hyrcanus (N.. View all taxonomy...
Taxonomy: Picus minor Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Related to D. canicapillus and D. kizuki. Recent genetic data suggest also a link to North American “Picoides pubescens group”. Races intergrade extensively over species’ huge range, with many intermediate populations; numerous additional races have been described, but often on rather weak grounds, and differences are often part of a clinal variation. Named races not accepted include hispaniae (Spain), jordansi (C European mountains), serbicus (Montenegro), wagneri (Romania), hyrcanus (N Iran), mongolicus (SW Siberia to Mongolia), nojidoensis (NE Korea) and immaculatus (Kamchatka). Eleven subspecies recognized.
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Related to D. canicapillus and D. kizuki. Recent genetic data suggest also a link to North American “Picoides pubescens group”. Races intergrade extensively over species’ huge range, with many intermediate populations; numerous additional races have been described, but often on rather weak grounds, and differences are often part of a clinal variation. Named races not accepted include hispaniae (Spain), jordansi (C European mountains), serbicus (Montenegro), wagneri (Romania), hyrcanus (N Iran), mongolicus (SW Siberia to Mongolia), nojidoensis (NE Korea) and immaculatus (Kamchatka). Eleven subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- minor (Linnaeus, 1758) - N Europe from Scandinavia E to Ural Mts.
- kamtschatkensis (Malherbe, 1861) - Urals E to R Anadyr and Kamchatka.
- amurensis (Buturlin, 1908) - lower R Amur and Sakhalin S to NE Korea and N Japan (Hokkaido).
- minor (Linnaeus, 1758) - N Europe from Scandinavia E to Ural Mts.
- kamtschatkensis (Malherbe, 1861) - Urals E to R Anadyr and Kamchatka.
- amurensis (Buturlin, 1908) - lower R Amur and Sakhalin S to NE Korea and N Japan (Hokkaido).
- comminutus Hartert, 1907 - SC & S Britain.
- hortorum (C. L. Brehm, 1831) - France E to Poland and S to Switzerland, Hungary and N Romania.
- buturlini (Hartert, 1912) - Iberia, S France and Italy E to Romania, Bulgaria and N Greece.
- ledouci (Malherbe, 1855) - N Africa (NE Algeria, NW Tunisia).
- danfordi (Hargitt, 1883) - Greece and Turkey.
- colchicus (Buturlin, 1908) - Caucasus and Transcaucasia.
- quadrifasciatus (Radde, 1884) - Lenkoran region of SE Transcaucasia.
- morgani Zarudny & Loudon, 1904 - NW Iran and Zagros Mts.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Two adults feeding at the nest Locality Madrid, Spain (ssp buturlini)
Javier Ortas 4 June 2008 4 years ago 31 sec 4.8 -
A male on a trunk, chased away by a Great Spotted Woodpecker Locality Sceaux, Île-de-France, France
Robert Mouchard 19 February 2012 23 weeks ago 58 sec 4.8 -
Two adults feeding at the nest hole Locality Madrid, Spain
Javier Ortas 1 July 2009 3 years ago 30 sec 4.7 -
An adult male feeding at the nest Locality Madrid, Spain (ssp buturlini)
Javier Ortas 1 July 2009 3 years ago 30 sec 4.7 -
A male pecking on a trunk. Locality Guadalix, Madrid, Spain (ssp buturlini)
Javier Ortas 10 February 2007 5 years ago 35 sec 4.6 -
A close-up of the male inside the nest Locality Madrid, Spain
Javier Ortas 1 July 2009 3 years ago 31 sec 4.5
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is building his home.
Locality Podlaskie Province, Poland
Paweł Wacławik 4 May 2006 3 years ago 4.6 -
Male of Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Locality El Escorial, Madrid, Spain (ssp buturlini)
Jesús Giraldo Gutiérrez d... 18 September 2009 38 weeks ago 4.3 -
A female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in Helsinki Viikki
Locality Southern Finland Province, Finland (ssp minor)
Ahvenainen 14 May 2010 2 years ago 4.2 -
Male searching for grubs on a dead branch
Locality San Román de los Montes, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Rafael Merchante 12 January 2012 4 days ago ADDED LAST WEEK 4.2 -
Female feeding a young male at nest
Locality Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
Marc FASOL 20 May 2009 24 weeks ago 4 -
Male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker feeding.
Locality Doñana National Park, Andalucia, Spain (ssp buturlini)
Jason Anderson 1 January 2013 17 weeks ago 3.5
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Calls of a male Locality Wanstead Park, London, England, Great Britain
Stuart Fisher 27 April 2010 3 years ago 4.5 -
A male drumming on a dead branch on an Oak tree Locality Wanstead Park, London, England, Great Britain
(ssp comminutus)
Stuart Fisher 19 March 2011 2 years ago 4 -
A male drumming on a dead branch on an Oak tree Locality Wanstead Park, London, England, Great Britain
(ssp comminutus)
Stuart Fisher 19 March 2011 2 years ago 4 -
Calls of a male prior to flying away Locality London, England, Great Britain
(ssp comminutus)
Stuart Fisher 9 April 2009 3 years ago 3
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