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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Dryobates minor · Family Picidae
Dryobates minor
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 726,883
- Countries and territories with records
- 66
About this species
This species has 726,883 occurrence records from 66 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (41.5%), France (12.7%), Norway (7.3%), the Netherlands (6.3%) and Spain (4.2%); together they account for 72.1% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dryobates minor combines the genus name Dryobates with the species epithet minor. The Warbla app catalog lists 25 species of the genus Dryobates; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dryobates pubescens, Dryobates villosus and Dryobates nuttallii.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 16th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is 1.8 times the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.