Picus leuconotus = white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) Picus leuconotus
Date between 1842 and 1848
Artist Jacques Christophe Werner (1798–1856); Pierre Langlumé (1790–1830)
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Temminck & Werner, Oiseaux d'Europe, Ordre 5, Zygodactyles, 198
Old Latin name Picus leuconotus
New Latin name Dendrocopos leucotos
Common name Nederlands: Witrugspecht
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The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) is a Eurasian woodpecker belonging to the genus Dendrocopos in the family Picidae. Dendrocopos leucotos is the largest of the spotted woodpeckers in the western Palearctic. It occurs in central and northern Europe, in the Balkans and Turkey, and in the region eastwards as far as Korea and Japan. It is a scarce bird, requiring large tracts of mature deciduous forests with high amounts of standing and laying dead wood.
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Dendrocopos
Species: Dendrocopos leucotos (Bechstein, 1802)
