🐦European Green Woodpecker
El carpintero verde o pito real (Picus viridis) es una especie de ave piciforme de la familia Picidae. Se distribuye por la mayor parte de Europa y el oeste de Asia. Habita en todo tipo de masas forestales, incluso zonas de matorral, y también en parques y jardines en zonas urbanas. Su población se estima entre 920 000 y 2 900 000 ejemplares. El más común y extendido de los pájaros carpinteros, el pito real, es un ave inconfundible de la que, en muchas ocasiones, se tiene referencia por su característico canto: una especie de sonoro relincho que delata su presencia en las arboledas ribereñas, los bosques caducifolios y las áreas ajardinadas donde se instala. Activo consumidor de invertebrados, este pícido dispone de una larga y pegajosa lengua con la que prospecta los resquicios de los hormigueros en busca de los huevos, larvas y adultos que constituyen la base de su dieta.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 0.18 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 15 years
Everything we know about the European Green Woodpecker
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.18 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.18 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.1 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.17 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.04 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan15 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatForestAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.2 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 European Green Woodpecker yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPiciformes
- ›familyPicidae
- ›genusPicus
- ›speciesPicus viridis
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPiciformes
- familyPicidae
- genusPicus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPiciformes
- familyPicidae
- genusPicus
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