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Picoides tridactylus (Three-toed Woodpecker; Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker)

Synonyms: Picus tridactylus (homotypic)
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) is a medium-sized woodpecker.
View Wikipedia Record: Picoides tridactylus

Infraspecies

Picoides tridactylus albidior
Picoides tridactylus alpinus
Picoides tridactylus crissoleucus
Picoides tridactylus funebris (Dark-bodied Woodpecker)
Picoides tridactylus inouyei
Picoides tridactylus kurodai
Picoides tridactylus tianschanicus
Picoides tridactylus tridactylus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
16
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.10268
EDGE Score: 1.80873
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  65 grams
Birth Weight [1]  5.2 grams
Female Weight [4]  61 grams
Male Weight [4]  70 grams
Weight Dimorphism [4]  14.8 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Fledging [3]  24 days
Incubation [5]  12 days
Mating Display [7]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Maximum Longevity [8]  11 years 2 months
Snout to Vent Length [3]  9 inches (22 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratophyllus adustus[9]
Ceratophyllus zhovtyi[9]
Leucochloridium perturbatum[10]
Ornithophaga anomala anomala[9]
Ornithophaga mikulini[9]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Hogstad, O. 1976. Sexual dimorphism and divergence in winter foraging behavior of Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus. Ibis 118:41–50
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 8de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 9International Flea Database
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0