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
Javier Ortas 4 June 2008 3 years ago 31 sec 4.8 -
Two adults with food at the nest Locality Madrid, Spain
Javier Ortas 1 July 2009 2 years ago 29 sec 4.7 -
Two adults feeding at the nest hole Locality Madrid, Spain
Javier Ortas 1 July 2009 2 years ago 30 sec 4.7 -
An adult male feeding at the nest Locality Madrid, Spain
Javier Ortas 1 July 2009 2 years ago 30 sec 4.7 -
A close-up of the male inside the nest Locality Madrid, Spain
Javier Ortas 1 July 2009 2 years ago 31 sec 4.5 -
Juvenile at the nest and adults feeding Locality Madrid, Spain
Javier Ortas 4 June 2008 3 years ago 29 sec 4.5
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is building his home.
Locality Podlaskie Province, Poland
Paweł Wacławik 4 May 2006 2 years ago 4.6 -
A female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in Helsinki Viikki
Locality Southern Finland Province, Finland
Ahvenainen 14 May 2010 1 year ago 4 -
Juvenile male in the hand - lateral view.
Locality Milicz Fish Ponds, Milicz, Lower Silesian Province, Poland (ssp hortorum)
Hanna Sztwiertnia 24 June 2010 1 year ago 3.2 -
An adult male at the nest hole.
Locality Izmailovsky Park, Moscow, Western Russia, Russia
Josep del Hoyo 2 June 2009 1 year ago 3.2 -
Female on tree-trunk looking around
Locality Teich Bird Reserve, Gironde, Aquitanie, France
Nicole Bouglouan 16 February 2007 1 year ago 3.2 -
Female
Locality Burgas (Vaya) Lake, Bulgaria
Juan José Bazán Hiraldo 14 September 2011 16 weeks ago 3
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Calls of a male Locality Wanstead Park, London, England, Great Britain
Stuart Fisher 27 April 2010 2 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 1 year 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 1 year ago 4 -
Calls of a male prior to flying away Locality London, England, Great Britain
(ssp comminutus)
Stuart Fisher 9 April 2009 2 years ago 3
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