Mangoverde :: World Bird Guide :: Woodpeckers and Allies :: Great Spotted Woodpecker

Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major

Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): Picoides major

Photographs

England - Date unknown © Andy Bright  England - Date unknown © Andy Bright  England - Date unknown © Andy Bright  England - Date unknown © Andy Bright  Cantenay-Épinard, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de La Loire, France - Nov 1, 2001 © Alain Fossé 
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Range

Temperate Europe to e. Asia;
(1) Scandinavia to w. Siberia to the Ural Mountains s. in nw. and c. Russia, to n. Poland and n. Ukraine.
(2) England, France through c. Europe e. through sw. and s. Russia, s. Ukraine to the Volga River and s. to Italy, Hungary (Borzsony), Bulgaria, Turkey and the Caucasus Mountains.
(3) Corsica and Sardinia.
(4) Portugal and s. Spain.
The Canary Is.:
(5) Teneriffe Is.
(6) Gran Canaria Is.
(7) Morocco.
(8) N. Algeria and Tunisia.
(9) N. Iran in the s. Caspian Sea region and Transcaucaspia.
(10) C. and s. Siberia and n. Mongolia.
(11) Kamchatka.
(12) C. and e. Manchuria, Sakhalin Is., Kuril Is., Korea, n. Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu) and Izu Is. (Tsushima)
(13) S. Manchuria s. through e. China to e. Burma, n. Laos, n. Vietnam (nw. Tonkin) and Hainan Is.
(14) C. China (e. Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan), se. Tibet, ne. India, w. and ne. Burma to se. China (Yunnan).

Videos

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Sounds

Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Frans van der Veen
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Frans van der Veen
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Avisoft
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Avisoft
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Pintails Home (Kim Hyun-Tae)
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Biological Research Information Center, BRIC of Korea
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Jeff Blincows Sound Gallery
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Jeff Blincows Sound Gallery
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: ETI BioInformatics

References

Clements, James F. Birds of the World: A Checklist. Vista, CA: Ibis Publishing Company, 2000.

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