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Revision as of 15:18, 24 May 2007
- Dendrocopos medius
Description
Location: Saratov region.Russia
Identification
Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos media)
Range: Almost confined to the Western Palearctic occurring elsewhere only in northern and south-west Iran. Breeds from Brittany and central France east across Europe to about 420E in Russia. In the north reaches the southern Baltic coast from Germany to Lithuania. To the south absent from the Alps and most of Italy but occurs throughout the Balkans south to southern Greece and Lesbos, in Turkey except the interior and in the Caucasus. Isolated pockets in the Pyrenees and Cantabrians, perhaps northern Italy and parts of southern Italy. Formerly more widespread, once breeding in southern Sweden and Denmark, but range has contracted in some areas and commonest in the south-east of Europe. Despite this has recently begun to breed in the Netherlands, Latvia and Lithuania. Mainly resident but some wander in autumn and winter. Vagrants recorded in Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark and Estonia, also Iraq.
Habitat: Found mainly in deciduous forest and woodland, particularly oak and hornbeam, also in alder and beech. Feeds more on outer branches than Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Subspecies: The nominate race is found over most of European range and replaced by caucasicus from north Turkey and the Caucasus with yellower underparts and less red on vent, and the similar but smaller anatoliae from western and southern Turkey.
