Birdwatching - 1620 🐦

🦉 The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos)

📚 Dendrocopos (Greek): dendron - tree, coptō - to hit, beat
📚 leucotos (Greek): leukos - white, nōton - back

This species of woodpecker is much rarer than him close relative the Great Spotted Woodpecker, at least to me.
And the point here is probably in the habitats. This woodpecker prefers more difficult forests, with rotten and dying trees. It is obvious that the trees in such places are loose and easier to peck to get insects.

With regards to appearance, it is distinguished by a red cap along the entire head (in the Great Spotted Woodpecker, this cap is very small and on the back of the head), as well as the underside of the body is whiter and with variegated stripes.