Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Woodpeckers

PICIFORMES

Picidae

Dendrocopos major
Forest, woodland, farmlands, towns. Lowlands and mts. to 2300 m from British Isles and Scandinavia e across nw,c Russia and c,s Siberia to Sea of Okhotsk, Kamchatka and Kuril Is. and s to Canary Is., n Mediterranean region,Turkey, n Iran, sw,s Russia, China, e India, w,n,ne Burma, n Laos, n Vietnam, Japan and Izu Is.

Includes two subspecies groups, major and cabanisi, the latter has strongly differentiated subspecies that are connected by the intermediate race, japonicus.
D. major hybridizes with D. syriacus and D. leucopterus where their ranges are in contact and they sometimes are treated as conspecific.
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           Dendrocopos Gr. dendron (albero) + kopos (picchiare)
          -major L. maior [magnus] (grande)

Dendrocopos syriacus
Dry woodland, farmlands, towns, desert oases.
Lowlands to 1200 m from e Austria, Czechoslovakia and extreme w Russia se through Balkans to Greece, Turkey, Near East, n Iraq, sw Russia and w,s Iran.
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- syriacus L. syriacus (Siriano)

Dendrocopos medius
Deciduous woodland. Lowlands usually below 1000 m from cont. Europe and s Sweden e through Turkey to sw Russia and nw,sw Iran.
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-medius L. medius (medio)
-riferito alla grandezza della specie nel proprio Genere
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Dendrocopos leucotos
Deciduous and mixed forest. The two races are parapatric in e Yugoslavia, but altitudinally and ecologically separated with few known hybrids. They may be separate species.

D. l. leucotos. Lowlands to 1700 m from s Scandinavia, and e Europe s to Germany, Austria, ne Italy, Hungary, e Yugoslavia and Romania, e across nw,c Russia, s Siberia, n Mongolia and n,c,se China to Japan, Ryukyu Is. and Taiwan.

D. l. lilfordi. Locally in s Europe in the Pyrenees, c Italy, and from Yugoslavia e,s through Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and w,n Turkey to Caucasus, Transcaucasus and w,n Iran.

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- leucotos Gr. leukos (bianco) + -otis (orecchio)
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Dendrocopos minor
Forest, edge, second growth, towns. Up to 1200 m from British Isles and Scandinavia e across nw,c Russia and c,s Siberia to Sea of Okhotsk, Anadyrland and Kamchatka and s to nw Africa, n Mediterranean region, Turkey, sw Russia, w,n Iran, extreme w China, Mongolia, Manchuria, n Korea and n Japan.
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- minor L. minor [parvus] (minore)
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Picoides tridactylus
Coniferous forest, riparian willow thickets. From Scandinavia e across n,c Russia and n,ec,se Siberia to Kolyma R., Kamchatka and Kuril Is. and s to sw Siberia, n Mongolia, w,c China, se Tibet, Manchuria, ne Korea and n Japan; mts. of c,s Europe; from nw,c Alaska, c Yukon, nw,c Mackenzie, Alberta and n,c Saskatchewan e across c,s Canada to n Labrador and Newfoundland and s to w,s Alaska, s British Columbia, c Washington and s Oregon, in Rocky Mts. to e Nevada, c Arizona and sc New Mexico and to ne Minnesota, n Michigan, n New York and n New England.
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