🐦Great Spotted Woodpecker
Stor flagspætte (latin: Dendrocopos major) er en spætteart, der lever i Europa (herunder Danmark), det nordlige Afrika og i store dele af Asien. Stor flagspætte er den almindeligste danske spætte. I Danmark yngler stor flagspætte over hele landet, bortset fra mindre øer med kun lidt skov som Ærø og Anholt. Den er især almindelig i blandskov med udgåede træer. Dens trommen høres oftest i marts og april. De danske fugle er standfugle. I år med ringe frøsætning i nåleskovene nord for Danmark, kan mange unge fugle gæste landet. Store flagspætte har en længde på ca 23 cm og vejer omkring 90 g. Hannen kendes på sin røde nakkeplet. Ungfuglene har rød isse. Den lever om sommeren især af insekter, mens den om vinteren tager frø fra koglerne af fyr eller gran. Stor flagspætte kan desuden tage andre fugles æg eller unger.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 0.07 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 13 years
Everything we know about the Great Spotted Woodpecker
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.07 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.08 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.09 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.14 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.02 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan13 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelOmnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWoodlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Great Spotted Woodpecker yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPiciformes
- ›familyPicidae
- ›genusDendrocopos
- ›speciesDendrocopos major
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPiciformes
- familyPicidae
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPiciformes
- familyPicidae
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