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Species › Birds

European Green Woodpecker

Picus viridis

Order
Piciformes
Family
Picidae
Presence in the Strait
Resident
Abundance
common
Protection in Spain
Special protection (List)
In Spanish
Pito real

Photograph: Andrea Poggi, CC BY, vía iNaturalist

Length
31–33 cm
Wingspan
40–42 cm
Weight
180 g
02040LENGTH31–33 cmWINGSPAN40–42 cmcentimetres

Presence in the Strait

Common resident in forests in the Northern half of the territory and expanding in the SW.

Identification

Large with greenish upperparts and green grey underparts. Bright-red crown and yellow rump. Males have a red center to a black moustache and a black eye-patch. Females have a black moustache. Juvenile birds have upperparts spotted white and underparts heavily spotted black. Its call is a powerful and strident “neigh”.

Movements

Sedentary with juvenile dispersal between July and January, with peaks in August.

Ring recoveries

Chick ringed in its nest in Cuenca on 21.06.81 controlled on 28.08.81 at Barbate, 68 days later, 494 Km. away.

Bioestrecho editorial text. Last revised: 8 September 2026.

Gallery

Photographs from iNaturalist observations with the licence checked file by file. Those marked “Strait” were taken within the area; place and date are those of each observation.