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🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)

📚 Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit
📚 martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March

It's hard not to notice this big guy in the forest. In addition to its large size, it also has a loud voice that can be heard from afar. It is found all year round and in any forest. But with the arrival of spring, you can see how these woodpeckers ruin anthills and feast on ants.

Basically, these forest rippers sit on trees and inspect the bark of trees, literally ripping it off in chunks. Therefore, traces of their activity are easy to recognize, unlike other types of woodpeckers.