Great spotted woodpecker
Dendrocopos major
Family Picidae. Order Piciformes.
Photo: hedera.baltica from Wrocław, Poland / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Description
The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) is a medium-sized woodpecker with pied black and white plumage and a red patch on the lower belly.
Traits
- Residency
- resident
- Diet
- insects, conifer seeds
- Game species
- no
♪ Bird call
Recording: Sander Pieterse
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Photographs
Johann Daniel Meyer / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Links
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