White-backed Woodpecker

Dendrocopos leucotos - Pic à dos blanc

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Piciformes

  • Family
    :

    Picidés

  • Genus
    :

    Dendrocopos

  • Species
    :

    leucotos

Descriptor

Bechstein, 1802

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 28 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 38 à 40 cm.
  • Weight
    : 100 à 115 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Pic à dos blanc
♂ adult plum. breeding
Pic à dos blanc
♀ adult plum. breeding

White-backed Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.

Subspecific information 12 subspecies

  • Dendrocopos leucotos leucotos (c and n Europe through central Russia to se Siberia and ne China)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos tangi (wc China)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos fohkiensis (se China)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos insularis (Taiwan)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos lilfordi (s Europe to the Caucasus)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos subcirris (Hokkaido. Japan.)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos stejnegeri (n Honshu. Japan.)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos namiyei (s Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku. Japan.)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos takahashii (Ullung-do. off South Korea.)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos quelpartensis (Jeju-do. off South Korea.)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos owstoni (n Ryukyu Is.. Japan.)
  • Dendrocopos leucotos uralensis (w Ural Mts. to Lake Baikal)

Foreign names

  • Pic à dos blanc,
  • Pico dorsiblanco,
  • pica-pau-de-dorso-branco,
  • Weißrückenspecht,
  • fehérhátú fakopáncs,
  • Witrugspecht,
  • Picchio dorsobianco,
  • vitryggig hackspett,
  • Hvitryggspett,
  • ďateľ bielochrbtý,
  • strakapoud bělohřbetý,
  • Hvidrygget Flagspætte,
  • valkoselkätikka,
  • picot garser dorsiblanc,
  • Drumbspæta,
  • dzięcioł białogrzbiety,
  • baltmugurdzenis,
  • belohrbti detel,
  • Белоспинный дятел,
  • オオアカゲラ,
  • 白背啄木鸟,
  • 大赤啄木〔白背啄木〕,

Voice song and cries

Habitat

Pic à dos blanc
♂ adult plum. breeding

Forest : Boreal, Temperate, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls), Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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published: - Updated: 16-01-2004
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