Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1584 🐦

🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)

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

This large woodpecker is very well heard from afar. His memorable voice cannot be confused with the voices of other woodpeckers and birds. But his "work" is harder to hear than other woodpeckers. Indeed, unlike them, th issturdy
knocks less often, mainly from tearing off pieces of bark from a tree.

And at the very beginning of spring, you can see how he sits on top of an anthill that has thawed from the snow and eats local ants.