THE LESSER SPOTTED 

 WOODPECKER 



PICUS MINOR 



LOCAL names in surrounding counties : 



STATUS IN BRITISH AVIFAUNA : A widely distributed 

 resident in the wooded districts of England and Wales, 

 becoming rarer north of Yorkshire, and absent from 

 Scotland and Ireland. 



RADIAL DISTRIBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 

 PAUL'S : This is by far the most plentiful and generally 

 dispersed of the Woodpeckers in the Metropolitan area. 

 I can give no records of it from any of the central districts, 

 although it is quite possible that such a tiny species has 

 been overlooked. The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is 

 fairly common in the Dulwich, Wimbledon, Richmond, 

 Bushey, and Hanwell districts. Thence it may be found at 

 Horsenden, Sudbury, Wembley, Brentford, Kew, Ealing, 

 and Hampstead. It is also a local resident at Elstree, 

 Harrow, Pinner, Ruislip, Stanmore, Kingsbury, Mill Hill, 

 Barnet, Enfield, Waltham, Muswell Hill, Epping, Wan- 

 stead, and Dagenham. On the Kentish side of the river 

 among the localities frequented may be mentioned 

 Woolwich, Dartford, the Grays, Bromley, and Farn- 

 borough ; whilst in Surrey, again, to complete our radius, 

 we may add Croydon, Banstead, Sutton, Cheam, Merton, 

 Esher, and Epsom. Beyond the radius, but within easy 

 reach of the Metropolis, I may add that Eton, Windsor, 

 Ditton, and Burnham are favourite resorts of this Wood- 

 pecker. 



The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is just as shy and 

 retiring in its ways of life as its larger allies, and its small 

 size renders it even more likely to escape notice. It 

 frequents similar situations, but shows perhaps more 



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