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Where does the Black Woodpecker live?

Dryocopus martius has 1,219,736 records in 63 countries and territories, from 1753 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Black Woodpecker
Black Woodpecker — Dion Art / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPiciformesPicidaeDryocopus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 463,253
France 155,350
Netherlands 152,191
Norway 73,357
Finland 71,866
Germany 69,214
Denmark 44,419
Belgium 36,581
Russia 22,234
Czechia 19,799
Estonia 17,807
Poland 15,542
Austria 15,210
Spain 10,249
Italy 8,419
Switzerland 7,350
Hungary 5,351
Slovakia 4,192
Bulgaria 3,599
Serbia 3,136
Ukraine 3,104
Lithuania 2,256
Croatia 2,215
Slovenia 1,751
Romania 1,401
Greece 1,333
Luxembourg 1,179
Belarus 1,130
Latvia 878
Türkiye 782
Georgia 770
Åland Islands 661
China 660
Japan 416
Mongolia 365
Andorra 262
South Korea 179
Iran 161
United Kingdom 144
Montenegro 144

Showing the top 40 of 63 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.