Eurasian three-toed woodpecker
Eurasian three-toed woodpecker | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Genus: | Picoides |
Species: | P. tridactylus
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Binomial name | |
Picoides tridactylus | |
Eurasian three-toed woodpecker range.[2][n 1] | |
The range in Europe.[2][n 1] | |
Synonyms | |
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The Eurasian three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) is a medium-sized woodpecker that is found from northern Europe across northern Asia to Japan.
Taxonomy
The Eurasian three-toed woodpecker was
Eight subspecies are recognised:[7]
- P. t. tridactylus (Linnaeus, 1758) – northern Europe to the southern Ural Mountains and to south-eastern Siberia and north-eastern China
- P. t. alpinus Brehm, CL, 1831 – central and south-eastern Europe to western Ukraine and Romania
- P. t. crissoleucus (Reichenbach, 1854) – northern Ural Mountains to eastern Siberia
- P. t. albidior Stejneger, 1885 – eastern Siberia and Kamchatka Peninsula
- P. t. tianschanicus Buturlin, 1907 – eastern Kazakhstan and western China
- P. t. kurodai Yamashina, 1930 – north-eastern China and North Korea
- P. t. inouyei Yamashina, 1943 – Japan (Hokkaido)
- P. t. funebris Verreaux, J, 1871 – central China
The subspecies P. t. funebris is sometimes treated as a separate species, the dark-bodied woodpecker.[9]
Description
The Eurasian three-toed woodpecker is 21–22 cm (8.3–8.7 in) in length, just a little smaller than the great spotted woodpecker. The adult has black and white plumage except for the yellow crown of the male. Neither sex has any red feathers. It has black wings and rump, and white from the throat to the belly; the flanks are white with black bars. The back is white with black bars, and the tail is black with the white outer feathers barred with black. Juveniles of both sexes have a yellow crown.[10]
The voice call of the Eurasian three-toed woodpecker is a kik or chik
The breeding habitat is
Three-toed woodpeckers nest in a cavity in a dead conifer or sometimes a live tree or pole. The pair excavates a new nest each year.
This bird is normally a permanent resident, but northern birds may move south and birds at high elevations may move to lower levels in winter.
Three-toed woodpeckers forage on conifers in search of wood-boring beetle larvae or other insects. They may also eat fruit and tree sap.
These birds often move into areas with large numbers of insect-infested trees, often following a forest fire or flooding.
Notes
References
- . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ a b BirdLife International and NatureServe (2014) Bird Species Distribution Maps of the World. 2014. Picoides tridactylus. In: IUCN 2014. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". Archived from the original on 2014-06-27. Retrieved 2014-04-23.. Downloaded on 26 May 2015.
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 114.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 215.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Lacépède, Bernard Germain de (1799). "Tableau des sous-classes, divisions, sous-division, ordres et genres des oiseux". Discours d'ouverture et de clôture du cours d'histoire naturelle (in French). Paris: Plassan. p. 7. Page numbering starts at one for each of the three sections.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- JSTOR 1369173.
- . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Cramp 1985, pp. 913–914.
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-19-857507-8.
Further reading
- Gorman, Gerard (2004): Woodpeckers of Europe: A Study of the European Picidae. Bruce Coleman, UK. ISBN 1-872842-05-4.
- Fayt, Philippe; Machmer, Marlene M.; Steeger, Christoph (2005). "Regulation of spruce bark beetles by woodpeckers — a literature review". Forest Ecology and Management. 206 (1–3): 1–14. .