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SpeciesPiciformesPicidae
Birds

🐦Great Spotted Woodpecker

Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758)

دارکوب خالدار بزرگ (یا دارکوب بزرگ) (نام علمی: Dendrocopos major) یک دارکوب است که در خانواده دارکوبان قرار دارد. این گونه در سراسر اروپا و شمال آسیا دارای پراکندگی می‌باشد که در مناطق سرد به ندرت دیده می‌شود. همچنین این دارکوب توسط اتحادیه بین‌المللی حفاظت از طبیعت به عنوان یک گونه بدون تهدید در نظر گرفته شده که پراکندگی گسترده‌ای داشته و یک گونه عمومی و رایج به حساب می‌آید.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/830th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

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 mass
0.07 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.08 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.14 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
13 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPiciformes
  5. ›familyPicidae
  6. ›genusDendrocopos
  7. ›speciesDendrocopos major
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPiciformes
  4. familyPicidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPiciformes
  11. familyPicidae
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Black Woodpecker — last shared an ancestor ≈ 16 million years ago.
In other languages
Pic épeiche (fr), Grote bonte specht (nl), 大斑啄木鸟 (zh), dzięcioł duży (pl), Dendrocopos major (es), nagy fakopáncs (hu) … and 24 more languages
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Дятел большой пёстрый KR 01Dendrocopos major 108591347Dendrocopos major 108591372
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