Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1525 🐦

🦉 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 for me than his relative Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Most often they can be found in autumn and winter. Yes, and it is easier to do this at this time when the vegetation in the form of tall grass thickets does not interfere, because these woodpeckers love to inspect fallen trees.

These woodpeckers, in principle, love such impenetrable areas of the forest with dead trees, windbreaks.
The male differs from the female in the presence of a red cap on the head, and this cap in the male is the entire length of the head, unlike the Great Spotted Woodpecker.