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Carlo Costantini

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• Jun 13, 2009

• #1

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Cristian Mihai

Cristian Mihai

• Jun 13, 2009

• #2

White-backed Woodpecker it isn't a very common species, here in Romania (more common species of spotted woodpeckers are: Great Spotted, Syrian, Middle Spotted and Lesser Spotted; also Green and Grey-faced are more common species then White-backed). I've seen it a few times in the mountain forests, but I wasn't able to take pics with it.

 

jamesevry

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• Jun 15, 2009

• #3

I have also seen a white-backed woodpecker in the romanian carpathians (near poiana brasov to be exact) during winter. only "record shot" which has been severly cropped... I think it's of the sub-species leucotos (N & E Europe)

they are quite rare (or at least uncommon) in most of europe now arn't they?

 

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André Weiss

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• Jun 15, 2009

• #4

Interestingly this species has recently colonised Switzerland. It's still very rare, but more and more breeding spots are found and it seems that it's still spreading westwards.

André