#0700 · 🐦 birds

Black Woodpecker

🇳🇱 Zwarte Specht ·Dryocopus martius

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The black woodpecker ( Dryocopus martius ) is a large woodpecker that lives in mature forest across the northern Palearctic. It is the sole representative of its genus in that region. Its range is expanding in Eurasia. It does not migrate. This species is closely related to, and fills the same ecological niche in Europe as, the pileated woodpecker of North America.

base stats

NL sightings 158iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 26,692iNaturalist observations
weight 11.8 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).