#1121 · 🐦 birds

Grey-headed Woodpecker

🇳🇱 Grijskopspecht ·Picus canus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The grey-headed woodpecker ( Picus canus ), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker , is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family, Picidae. Along with the more commonly found European green woodpecker and the Iberian green woodpecker, it is one of three closely related sister species found in Europe. Its distribution stretches across large parts of the central and Eastern Palaearctic, all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 16,604iNaturalist 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.
16,604 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788 (238 years ago).