| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | Piciformes | Picidae |
| Scientific Name: | Dendrocopos major | |||
| Species Authority: | (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2009 | |||||||||||||||
| Assessor/s | BirdLife International | |||||||||||||||
| Evaluator/s: | Bird, J., Butchart, S.(BirdLife International) | |||||||||||||||
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Justification: This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be increasing, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is extremely large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. |
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Native:
Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; China; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Italy; Japan; Kazakhstan; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Kyrgyzstan; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Myanmar; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Tunisia; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Viet Nam
Vagrant:
Faroe Islands; Gibraltar; Hong Kong; Iceland; Ireland; United States
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| Population: | In Europe, the breeding population is estimated to number 12000000-18000000 breeding pairs, equating to 36000000-54000000 individuals (BirdLife International 2004). Europe forms 25-49% of the global range, so a very preliminary estimate of the global population size is 73500000-216000000 individuals, although further validation of this estimate is needed. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Citation: | BirdLife International 2009. Dendrocopos major. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 September 2010. |
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