Spotted Woodpecker

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Just beyond the rear windows, in gardens across the British nation, something amazing happens every winter. Little flashes of colour dart and dance from fencepost to footpath, from gazebo to greenhouse, from treetop to trellis. These are the garden birds that

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All these birds in my garden and I could never get near them till I built the hide, they're very wild, and this is the first time the woodpecker has stayed while my shutter went off.

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The Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a woodpecker native to North America. This insectivorous bird is a mostly sedentary inhabitant of deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada and parts of the Pacific coast. It is the 2nd-largest woodpecker on the continent, after the critically endangered—and possibly extinct—ivory-billed woodpecker. The term "pileated" refers to the bird's prominent red crest, with the term from the Latin…

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Europe, Asia

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