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'''Vagrants''' recorded in [[Portugal]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Denmark]] and [[Estonia]], also [[Iraq]]. | '''Vagrants''' recorded in [[Portugal]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Denmark]] and [[Estonia]], also [[Iraq]]. | ||
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| + | Placed in genus ''[[:Category:Dendrocoptes|Dendrocoptes]]'' by Gill and Donsker. | ||
====Subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>==== | ====Subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>==== | ||
*''D. m. medius'': | *''D. m. medius'': | ||
Revision as of 15:37, 26 April 2016
- Dendrocopos medius
Identification
19-20cm
Red crown above buffy-white face. Black upperparts broken by white scapular patches and spots on wings. Black facial marks. Pink vent.
Caucasicus has yellower underparts and less red on vent. Anatoliae is similar but smaller.
Similar Species
Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker; black moustachial stripes meet at bill and nape. Syrian Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker
Distribution
Almost confined to the Western Palearctic occurring elsewhere only in northern and south-west Iran.
Breeds from Brittany and central France east across Europe to about 420E in Russia. In the north reaches the southern Baltic coast from Germany to Lithuania. To the south absent from the Alps and most of Italy but occurs throughout the Balkans south to southern Greece and Lesvos, in Turkey except the interior and in the Caucasus. Isolated pockets in the Pyrenees and Cantabrians, perhaps northern Italy and parts of southern Italy. Formerly more widespread, once breeding in southern Sweden and Denmark, but range has contracted in some areas and commonest in the south-east of Europe. Despite this has recently begun to breed in the Netherlands, Latvia and Lithuania.
Mainly resident but some wander in autumn and winter.
Vagrants recorded in Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark and Estonia, also Iraq.
Taxonomy
Placed in genus Dendrocoptes by Gill and Donsker.
Subspecies[1]
- D. m. medius:
- D. m. caucasicus:
- D. m. anatoliae:
- Western and southern Asia Minor
- D. m. sanctijohannis:
- Zagros Mountains (south-western Iran)
Habitat
Found mainly in deciduous forest and woodland, particularly oak and hornbeam, also in alder and beech.
Behaviour
Feeds more on outer branches than Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Diet
Insects and sap
Breeding
Nest is excavated in rotten trunk or thick branch. Entrance hole around 4cm
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
- Collins Field Guide 5th Edition
- Collins Bird Guide ISBN 0 00 219728 6
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Middle Spotted Woodpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Middle_Spotted_Woodpecker
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