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Syrian Woodpecker
Dendrocopos syriacus · Family Picidae
Dendrocopos syriacus
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 129,139
- Countries and territories with records
- 38
About this species
This species has 129,139 occurrence records from 38 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (32.5%), Türkiye (18.4%), Ukraine (7.5%), Bulgaria (7.4%) and Hungary (4.3%); together they account for 70.1% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 0.63% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dendrocopos syriacus combines the genus name Dendrocopos with the species epithet syriacus. The Warbla app catalog lists 12 species of the genus Dendrocopos; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dendrocopos major, Dendrocopos leucotos and Dendrocopos macei.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 36th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is 32.2% of the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.