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title: "Peto-cinzento"
description: "Picus canus — Aves. The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker, is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family, Picidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/grey-headed-woodpecker
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Peto-cinzento

> Picus canus — Aves. The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker, is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family, Picidae.

- Scientific name: *Picus canus*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 16253
- Wikidata: [Q201106](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201106)
- iNaturalist taxon: [18301](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/18301)

## Names

- en: Grey-headed Woodpecker
- de: Grauspecht
- es: Pito cano
- fr: Pic cendré
- nl: Grijskopspecht
- pt: Peto-cinzento
- pl: Dzięcioł zielonosiwy

## Countries with the most observations

RU (10126), CN (961), UA (664), IN (579), DE (471), FI (435), KR (433), RO (182), AT (180), TH (155), PL (124), CZ (90)

## Summary

The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker, is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family, Picidae. Along with the more commonly found European green woodpecker and the Iberian green woodpecker, it is one of three closely related species found in Europe. Its distribution also stretches across large parts of the central and Eastern Palaearctic, all the way to the Pacific Ocean and south to the Himalaya and the Malay Peninsula.
The grey-headed woodpecker is more demanding than the European green woodpecker in terms of its habitat. It prefers deciduous forest with a high proportion…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-headed_woodpecker

## Photo

![Peto-cinzento](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/grey-headed-woodpecker/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108230554

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/grey-headed-woodpecker?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).