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Dendrocoptes medius

Dendrocoptes medius,Picoides medius,Middle Spotted Woodpecker

The Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius, Picoides medius, or Middle Spotted Woodpecker) is a European woodpecker。The medium-spotted woodpecker likes to feed in high trees, constantly moving. The medium-spotted woodpecker feeds mainly on insects and insect larvae, feeding on tree forks an

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Scientific Name Dendrocoptes medius,Picoides medius,Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Length No textual research information is available
Weight No textual research information is available
Lifespan No textual research information is available
IUCN Status LC
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    The Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius, Picoides medius, or Middle Spotted Woodpecker) is a European woodpecker。

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    The medium-spotted woodpecker likes to feed in high trees, constantly moving. The medium-spotted woodpecker feeds mainly on insects and insect larvae, feeding on tree forks and twigs rather than from under book covers. They also eat SAP. Rarely knocks on the tree trunk, and maintains territory by calling。

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    During the breeding season, the medium-spotted woodpecker makes a hole about 5cm wide in a decaying trunk or thick branch. Clutch of 4-7 eggs, incubation period 11-14 days。

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    Listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ver 3.1:2009 Bird Red List。

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    The medium-spotted woodpecker is found only in Europe and Southwest Asia, from northern Spain and eastern France to Poland and Ukraine, and south to central Italy (locally), the Balkans, Lithuania, Latvia, Turkey, the Caucasus and Iran. Due to its endemic nature, it has never been recorded in the UK.
    Middle-spotted woodpeckers prefer deciduous forest areas, especially those with old oaks, horned trees, and elms, and habitats with dense woodlands, grasslands, and forest clearings.
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