What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Eurasian Green Woodpecker been recorded?

Picus viridis occurrence evidence comes from 676,495 records in 27 countries and territories, from 1745 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Eurasian Green Woodpecker
Eurasian Green Woodpecker — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPiciformesPicidaePicus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

676,495 records across 27 countries and territories, 1745–2026.

Picus viridis · GBIF taxon key 2478523

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: March.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. 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.

Records over time

17452026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Eurasian Green Woodpecker has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Eurasian Green Woodpecker. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 492,511
Belgium 163,965
Germany 7,369
Austria 5,363
Luxembourg 3,235
United Kingdom 2,300
Spain 1,248
France 115
Netherlands 105
Czechia 72
Italy 62
Russia 42
Poland 18
Romania 16
Greece 13
Norway 12
Bulgaria 11
Switzerland 8
Hungary 7
Denmark 6
Türkiye 6
Serbia 3
Albania 2
Iran 2
Armenia 1
Slovakia 1
ZZ 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.