Black woodpecker

Dryocopus martius

Family Picidae. Order Piciformes.

Black woodpecker — Photographs 1 — Black woodpecker.
Photo: xulescu_g / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

Description

The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) is a large woodpecker that lives in mature forests across the northern Palearctic.

Traits

Residency: resident
Diet: ants, larvae
Game species: no

♪ Bird call

Recording: Alexander Kurthy

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Photographs

Black woodpecker — Photographs 2 — Black woodpecker. Zoological illustration.
Johann Daniel Meyer / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Links

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Source: Wikipedia