Least ConcernBlack Woodpecker
Dryocopus martius
47 countries9 parks
Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 2 species of woodpecker, in the family Picidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 49 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The largest woodpecker in Europe; the roomy holes it cuts in trunks are later taken over by owls and squirrels.
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Its holes are the largest excavated by any bird in Europe, which is why it is considered an ecosystem engineer: Tengmalm's owl, the stock dove, the greater noctule, the pine marten and numerous saproxylic beetles and fungi depend on them.
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It has expanded its range in the European Mediterranean over recent decades, and studies in Catalonia show that the decisive factor was connectivity between mature woods with trees over 35 cm in diameter.
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It is the largest woodpecker in the British Isles.
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It feeds mainly on ants and their grubs, drawn out of the ground on its long sticky tongue.
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It lives in open woodland, farmland and parks of the western Palaearctic.
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