Black woodpecker
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Black woodpeckers nest in trees with thick, upright trunks and high lower branches.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Black woodpecker
- Scientific name
- Dryocopus martius
- Japanese name
- クマゲラ
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- Genus
- Dryocopus
In Japan this woodpecker lives in Hokkaido all year round, while in Honshu its range is limited.
It eats ants and beetles that live inside dead trees such as beeches, and it has the habit of drilling holes in dead wood.
How the Black woodpecker lives
A pair needs a broad area of beech forest to live in.
青森県Basic data
- Diet
- Ants and beetles
- Conservation status in Japan
- Near Threatened (NT)Assessed as Dryocopus martius martiusMinistry of the Environment of Japan, 5th Red List (2026)
Where the Black woodpecker has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- クマゲラ
- 简体中文
- 黑啄木鸟
- 繁體中文
- 黑啄木鳥
- 한국어
- 까막딱따구리
- Español
- Picamaderos negro
- Français
- Pic noir
- Deutsch
- Schwarzspecht
- Português (Brasil)
- Pica-pau-preto
- Italiano
- Picchio nero
- العربية
- نقار الخشب الأسود
- Русский
- Желна
- Türkçe
- Kara ağaçkakan
- ไทย
- นกหัวขวานดำ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 青森県 — クマゲラChecked: 2026-11-03
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, 5th Red List (2026)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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