#1371 · 🐦 birds

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

🇳🇱 Ladderspecht ·Dryobates scalaris

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The ladder-backed woodpecker ( Dryobates scalaris ) is a North American woodpecker. Some taxonomic authorities, including the American Ornithological Society, continue to place this species in the genus Picoides .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 29,903iNaturalist observations
weight 30.3 gadult, up to
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.
29,903 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 30 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Georg Wagler in 1829 (197 years ago).