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🌍🌏 Great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) #EurasianBirds#EuropeanBirds#AsianBirds#AfricanBirds#GreatSpottedWoodpecker#SpottedWoodpecker#Woodpeckers#birds#birdsoftheworld 🦜 Photo by Luca_Cagnasso

🌍🌏 Great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

The Great spotted woodpecker is a medium-sized woodpecker with a mostly black and white plumage. Adult males and juveniles have a crimson patch on the nape, which is absent from the otherwise similar-looking adult female. They have a white upper belly, red lower-belly, black wings featuring white spots, and a black head with a white patch on each side. These woodpeckers have a strong, chisel-like beak that they use to excavate tree trunks in search of food. Great spotted woodpeckers are commonly found in woodland areas, parks, and gardens with mature trees.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 

Distribution: Widespread across Eurasia from Ireland to Japan, and in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia.

Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers, Piculets, Wrynecks and Sapsuckers)
Genus: Dendrocopos
Species: D. major

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📷: Photo by Luca_Cagnasso via Pixabay
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New addition! 🌍 Middle spotted woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius) #Europeanbirds#Eurasianbirds#Asianbirds#MiddleSpottedWoodpecker#SpottedWoodpecker#Woodpeckers#GenusDendrocoptes#FamilyPicidae#birdsoftheworld#birds🦜

Middle spotted woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius). Adult. Distribution: Continental Europe, and Iran. Conservation status: Least Concern. CC: FJHY 📷: Photo by sharkolot via Pixabay 2022

The photo shows a medium-sized woodpecker with a striking black and white plumage. It has a red crown, a short, pointed bill, and a pale face with no moustache stripe. Its underparts are white with dark streaks on the flanks, and it has large white shoulder patches.
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Goodmorning blueskypeople!🪶#bird #wildbird#birdart#spottedwoodpecker#woodpecker#drawing

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