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Dendrocopos major (Great Spotted Woodpecker)

Synonyms: Dendrocopos anglicus; Dryobates major; Dryocopus major; Picoides major; Picus major (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) is a bird species of the woodpecker family (Picidae). The genus name Dendrocopus is a combination of the Greek words dendron , meaning "tree" and kopos, "striking ". The specific major is from Latin maior, "greater". It is distributed throughout Europe and northern Asia, and usually resident year-round except in the colder parts of its range. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN, being widely distributed and quite common. A significant recent increase in the British population has resulted in the recolonisation of Ireland.
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Infraspecies

Dendrocopos major anglicus
Dendrocopos major beicki
Dendrocopos major brevirostris
Dendrocopos major cabanisi (Great Spotted Woodpecker) (Attributes)
Dendrocopos major canariensis
Dendrocopos major candidus
Dendrocopos major hainanus
Dendrocopos major harterti
Dendrocopos major hispanus
Dendrocopos major italiae
Dendrocopos major japonicus
Dendrocopos major kamtschaticus
Dendrocopos major major
Dendrocopos major mandarinus
Dendrocopos major mauritanus
Dendrocopos major numidus
Dendrocopos major paphlagoniae
Dendrocopos major parroti
Dendrocopos major pinetorum (Great Spotted Woodpecker)
Dendrocopos major poelzami
Dendrocopos major stresemanni
Dendrocopos major tenuirostris
Dendrocopos major thanneri
Dendrocopos major wulashanicus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
10
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.13963
EDGE Score: 1.42061
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  74 grams
Birth Weight [2]  5.7 grams
Female Weight [5]  71 grams
Male Weight [5]  80 grams
Weight Dimorphism [5]  12.7 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Endothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  50 %
Diet - Scavenger [3]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  30 %
Forages - Aerial [3]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  40 %
Forages - Understory [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [7]  6
Clutches / Year [6]  1
Fledging [1]  22 days
Incubation [6]  15 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Maximum Longevity [4]  13 years
Wing Span [6]  14 inches (.36 m)
Female Maturity [4]  1 year
Male Maturity [4]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Accipiter gentilis (Northern Goshawk)[8]
Accipiter nisus (Eurasian Sparrowhawk)[8]

Providers

Shelter 
Columba oenas (Stock Dove)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratophyllus gallinae (European chicken flea)[11]
Ceratophyllus zhovtyi[11]
Prosthogonimus cuneatus[12]

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
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4de 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
♦ 5Nathan 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
♦ 6British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 7Jetz 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
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10Farwig, Nina; Schabo, Dana G.; Albrecht, Jörg (2017), Data from: Trait-associated loss of frugivores in fragmented forest does not affect seed removal rates, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2784g
♦ 11International Flea Database
♦ 12Gibson, 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