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Dendrocopos syriacus
Family: PicidaeGenus: Dendrocoposnative in Germany
native in Germany
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Plants
visited
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3
Interactions
documented
About this species
A medium-sized woodpecker with an omnivorous diet including invertebrates, seeds, fruit and nectar. It lays a clutch of five eggs, with incubation lasting 11 days and fledging at 25 days.
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Merkmale
Körper
Wingspan
12.32 cm
Weight
77.875 g
Max. Lebensalter
10.916667 Jahre
Fortpflanzung
Wurfgröße / Gelege
5
Bebrütungsdauer
11 Tage
Ausflugalter
25 Tage
Ernährung & Verhalten
50% Wirbellose20% Samen20% Früchte10% Nektar
Scientific profile
Dendrocopos syriacus is a woodpecker weighing approximately 78 grams with a wingspan of about 12.3 centimetres. Its maximum recorded lifespan approaches 11 years. The diet is omnivorous, with invertebrates making up half of the intake, supplemented by seeds (20 per cent), fruit (20 per cent) and nectar (10 per cent). The breeding clutch consists of five eggs, incubated for 11 days. Young fledge after 25 days.
Sources & data origin
•Interaktionsdaten via GloBI (CC-BY 4.0)
•Neff et al. (2025) — Swiss Moth Traits, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14506883 (CC BY)
•GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — GBIF Secretariat (2024), DOI: 10.15468/39omei (CC BY 4.0)
•GBIF — Occurrence data via GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
•Europäische Umweltagentur / EEA (2021) — Article 12 Birds Directive Reporting 2013–2018: Bird Check List (season=B, presence=PRE, non_native=N). European Environment Agency, Kopenhagen. https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/article-12-database-birds-directive-2 (CC BY 4.0)
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