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Great Spotted Woodpecker
Dendrocopos major · Family Picidae
Dendrocopos major
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 5,398,799
- Countries and territories with records
- 86
About this species
This species has 5,398,799 occurrence records from 86 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (19.9%), the Netherlands (14.5%), France (10.3%), Germany (9%) and the United Kingdom (8%); together they account for 61.7% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dendrocopos major combines the genus name Dendrocopos with the species epithet major. The Warbla app catalog lists 12 species of the genus Dendrocopos; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dendrocopos syriacus, Dendrocopos leucotos and Dendrocopos macei.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is 13.5 times the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.