#1128 · 🐦 birds

White-backed Woodpecker

🇳🇱 Witrugspecht ·Dendrocopos leucotos

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Leonid · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © jamesbot · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Андрей Деев · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Sergey Yeliseev · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Sergey Yeliseev · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Sergey Yeliseev · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Восточный административный округ, Москва, Россия:© Mikhail Ezdakov · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Павловский р-н, Нижегородская обл., Россия:© Абакумов Николай Викторович · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 64560 Larrau, France:© Benoît Segerer · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Северо-Восточный административный округ, Москва, Россия:© Павел Кунгуров · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The white-backed woodpecker ( Dendrocopos leucotos ) is a Eurasian woodpecker belonging to the genus Dendrocopos .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 14,962iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
14,962 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1802 (224 years ago).