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Black Woodpecker

Adult male with young.

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Genus:	Dryocopus
Species:	D. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Least Concern ( LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. Six families of largely arboreal Birds make up the order Piciformes, the best-known of them being the Picidae which includes the Woodpeckers Dryocopus is a genus of large powerful Woodpeckers typically 35-45 cm in length martius

Binomial name

Dryocopus martius
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Black Woodpecker, Dryocopus martius, is a large woodpecker, 40-46 cm long with a 67-73 cm wingspan. Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for The woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks are a family, Picidae, of Near-passerine Birds.

It lives in mature forest across the northern palearctic. The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight Ecozones dividing the Earth surface It is the sole representative of its genus in that region. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Its range is expanding in Eurasia. For the superstate in George Orwell 's novel see Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four. It does not migrate. Bird migration refers to the regular seasonal journeys undertaken by many species of Birds Bird movements include those made in response to changes in food availability

Description

The plumage of this crow-sized woodpecker is entirely black apart from a red crown. Plumage refers both to the layer of Feathers that cover a Bird and the pattern colour and arrangement of those feathers The Carrion Crow ( Corvus corone) is a member of the Passerine order of Birds and the Crow family which is native to western Europe In males, the entire crown is red, but in females only the hindcrown. The sexes differ even as nestlings.

The Black Woodpecker's flight is straight, not dipping like other woodpeckers.

The nest is a tree-hole into which four or more eggs are laid.

References

BirdLife International (2004). Dryocopus martius. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

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