Birdwatching - 1969 🐦

🦉 The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos)

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

This woodpecker is very similar to its brother, the Great Spotted Woodpecker. However, they have differences. The first is appearance. As the name suggests, this woodpecker has white feathers on its back. In addition, he has a motley bottom. Males also have a long red cap on their heads, unlike the Great Spotted Woodpecker, which has a small cap.

Well, secondly, these are places of residence. This woodpecker loves forests where there are many old, diseased trees with loose bark. And he doesn’t peck pine cones in winter. It feeds on insects, nuts and berries.