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SpeciesPiciformesPicidae
Birds

🐦Black Woodpecker

Dryocopus martius (Linnaeus, 1758)

נקר שחור (שם מדעי: Dryocopus martius) הוא מין של נקר גדול מהסוג Dryocopus, שמצוי ביערות באזור הפלארקטי, ואינו נודד. תחום תפוצתו מתפרש מצרפת וספרד על פני כל אירופה (מלבד פורטוגל והממלכה המאוחדת), ועד לחלקים מהמזרח התיכון ואסיה, שכוללים את קוריאה, יפן וסין.

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≈ 1/190th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.32 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
14 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black Woodpecker

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

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

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
14 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Habitat
Forest
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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
0.3 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 Black Woodpecker yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPiciformes
  5. ›familyPicidae
  6. ›genusDryocopus
  7. ›speciesDryocopus martius
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
🐦 Great Spotted Woodpecker — last shared an ancestor ≈ 16 million years ago.
In other languages
Pic noir (fr), Zwarte specht (nl), dzięcioł czarny (pl), Dryocopus martius (es), fekete harkály (hu), spillkråka (sv) … and 26 more languages
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BlackWoodsBlack woodpecker (Dryocopus martius), Parc de Woluwé, Brussels (23664278783)
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