Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker
Picoides tridactylus (Linnaeus, 1758)
STATUS
Eurasia. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
Species not admitted nationally (BOU 1971).
NOT PROVEN
0). Pre 1850 County unknown "North of Scotland", undated.
(Gray, 1850-52; Morris, 1856-62).
[BOU, 1971].
History Morris (1857 (2): 90, reissue) says: 'I insert this species on the authority of Donovan, VI. plate 143: Mr. G. R. Gray, in his List of the British Birds in the British Museum, who gives the "North of Scotland" as the place of its occurrence; Stephens' General Zoology; Edwards, and others; and the Zoology List of Birds.'