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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major - Grote Bonte Specht
Eurasia.
The following 24 subspecies are being recognized:
Dendrocopos major major - Scandinavia and Northeast-Poland to West-Siberia;
Dendrocopos major brevirostris - West-Siberia to East-Siberia, Northeast-China and North-Mongolia;
Dendrocopos major kamtschaticus - Kamchatka Peninsula (East-Siberia);
Dendrocopos major anglicus - Great Britain;
Dendrocopos major pinetorum - West- and Central-Europe;
Dendrocopos major parroti - Corsica;
Dendrocopos major harterti - Sardinia;
Dendrocopos major italiae - Italy, Sicily and West-Slovenia;
Dendrocopos major hispanus - Iberian Peninsula;
Dendrocopos major canariensis - Tenerife (Canary Islands);
Dendrocopos major thanneri - Gran Canaria (Canary Islands);
Dendrocopos major mauritanus - Morocco;
Dendrocopos major numidus - North-Algeria and North-Tunisia;
Dendrocopos major candidus - Romania and South-Ukraine to Greece;
Dendrocopos major paphlagoniae - North-Turkey;
Dendrocopos major tenuirostris - Caucasus and Transcaucasia (Southwest-Asia);
Dendrocopos major poelzami - Southeast-Azerbaijan, North-Iran and Southwest-Turkmenistan;
Dendrocopos major japonicus - Southeast-Siberia, Northeast-China, Korean Peninsula and North- and Central-Japan;
Dendrocopos major wulashanicus - Inner Mongolia (North-China);
Dendrocopos major cabanisi - East-China;
Dendrocopos major beicki - Central-China;
Dendrocopos major mandarinus - South-China and East-Myanmar to North-Laos and North-Vietnam;
Dendrocopos major stresemanni - Northeast-India, Northeast-Myanmar to Southeast-Tibet, West-Sichuan and Yunnan (Southcentral-China);
Dendrocopos major hainanus - Hainan Island (off Southeast-China).
There are no Zoo Photo's available of this species.
Claude Moreillon | 13-Oct-2007 08:35 | |