Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1204 🐦

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🦉 The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker

📚 Picus (lat.) woodpecker; in Romanesque mythology, Peak, or Picus, the Roman god of forests and the king of Latium, distinguished by male beauty, rejected the love claims of the sorceress Circe (Kirka), after which the offended Kirka turned him into a woodpecker
📚 canus (lat.) gray

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This species of woodpeckers is quite rare in itself, and in my city, respectively, too.
But in 2019, I met them more often than usual. The first time I met a male in early spring, when it was already warm, but there was still a lot of snow. The male drummed on the tree, showing the females his abilities. However, I did not see females then.

And in the summer, I met this pair, and the male (most likely the same one that I saw in the spring) and the female. The male differs from the female by the presence of a red cap on his head.
Good luck! And I even managed to take a picture of them together.

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