Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Authority: (Ehrenberg, 1833)

Red List Category:

Justification of Red List category
This species has an extremely large range and the population size is very large, hence does not approach threatened thresholds for the range or population size criteria. The population trend is not known, but the population is not believed to be decreasing sufficiently rapidly to approach the thresholds under the population trend criterion. For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Population size: 806000-1930000 mature individuals

Population trend: unknown

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 8,290,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Palearctic
IUCN System - Terrestrial