Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1326 🐦

in Feathered Friends3 years ago

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🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

📚 Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat
📚 major (lat.) big

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The most common and widespread species of woodpeckers,
You can always meet him. In any type of forest, coniferous, deciduous, mixed. And since woodpeckers are sedentary birds, they can always be found, at any time of the year.

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Spring has almost arrived, and even now you can hear their drumming. Moreover, not only males drum, but even females. Thanks to this, pairs are formed.

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Of course, they feed on insects, which are mainly mined in trees or on surfaces. And in the spring, after the snow melts, woodpeckers like to go down to the lower tier of the forest and dig up anthills.

In winter, their main food is the seeds of conifers,
which they extract from the cones, plucking them from the branches and crushing them in special holes in the trees, which are called "forges".

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