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English Great Spotted Woodpecker
Scientific (Dendrocopos major major)
Order PICIFORMES
Family (Latin) Picidae
Family (English) Woodpeckers
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Belgium,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria, China,Croatia,Czech Republic,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,France,Georgia,Germany,Greece, Hungary,India - mainland,Iran,Italy,Japan,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Liechtenstein, Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Myanmar,Netherlands, North Korea,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russia,San Marino,Serbia,Slovakia,Slovenia, South Korea,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Ukraine,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan, Vietnam,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
major Scandinavia and ne Poland to w Siberia
candidus Romania and s Ukraine to Greece
paphlagoniae n Turkey
tenuirostris Caucasus and Transcaucasia (sw Asia)
poelzami se Azerbaijan, n Iran and sw Turkmenistan
japonicus se Siberia, ne China, Korean Pen. and n, c Japan
wulashanicus Inner Mongolia (n China)
cabanisi e China
beicki c China
mandarinus s China and e Myanmar to n Laos and n Vietnam
stresemanni ne India, ne Myanmar to se Tibet and sc China (w Sichuan, Yunnan)
numidus n Algeria and Tunisia
mauritanus Morocco
brevirostris w Siberia to e Siberia, ne China and n Mongolia
kamtschaticus Kamchatka Pen. (e Siberia)
anglicus Great Britain
pinetorum c Europe
parroti Corsica
harterti Sardinia
italiae Italy, Sicily and w Slovenia
hispanus Iberian Pen.
canariensis Tenerife (c Canary Is., c Macaronesia, nw of n Africa)
thanneri Gran Canaria (c Canary Is., c Macaronesia, nw of n Africa)
hainanus Hainan I. (off se China)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Buntspecht
French Pic épeiche
Chinese 大斑啄木鸟
Japanese アカゲラ
Russian Большой пёстрый дятел
Spanish Pico picapinos
Portuguese pica-pau-malhado
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)