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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Dryobates minor

1,025Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
55Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan71
Feb72
Mar102
Apr125
May85
Jun91
Jul43
Aug32
Sep20
Oct16
Nov44
Dec22

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England153
2Kent England70
3Gloucestershire England48
4Nottinghamshire England47
5Cambridgeshire England28
6Surrey England26
7Essex England26
8Ceredigion Wales22
9Norfolk England20
10Suffolk England19
11Dorset England18
12Gwynedd Wales17
13Carmarthenshire Wales12
14Worcestershire England9
15Somerset England9
944 England5 Scotland71 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 55 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,025
Peak month
April
Counties with records
55
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Dryobates minor
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,279
Most recorded in
Devon, Kent
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Piciformes
Family
Picidae
Genus
Dryobates
Name with authority
Dryobates minor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q184518 · GBIF 9015784