Tuesday 28 December 2010
Foraging holes made by Black Woodpecker
Sunday 19 December 2010
Typical feeding stump of White-backed Woodpecker
Thursday 9 December 2010
Tuesday 23 November 2010
Wednesday 17 November 2010
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Wednesday 3 November 2010
Recommended Reading: The Cult of the Green Bird
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Green Woodpecker foraging on thatched roof
Thursday 21 October 2010
Recommended Reading: Schwarzspecht, Grauspecht, Grunspecht
Friday 15 October 2010
Anvil of Great Spotted Woodpecker
Sunday 10 October 2010
Keystone Species
Saturday 2 October 2010
Friday 1 October 2010
Gallery: Black Woodpecker
Sunday 26 September 2010
Black Woodpecker carrying faecal sac
Wednesday 22 September 2010
Nest-Box Damage
Tuesday 14 September 2010
Gallery: Wryneck
Wednesday 8 September 2010
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Wednesday 25 August 2010
Black Woodpeckers - changing over at the nest
Wednesday 18 August 2010
Woodpecker Feeding Signs
Tuesday 10 August 2010
Recent Article on Woodpeckers
Monday 2 August 2010
Black Woodpecker foraging site
Sunday 25 July 2010
Heinz Sielmann film clips
Friday 16 July 2010
Syrian Woodpeckers in action
Tuesday 13 July 2010
Black Woodpecker male at its hole
Monday 5 July 2010
Monograph on Black Woodpecker
Thursday 1 July 2010
Great Spotted Woodpecker Holes in Shed
One of the main areas of conflict between woodpeckers and people concerns the damage that they can do to wooden buildings. In some regions, they regularly bore holes in log cabins, barns and even occupied homes. People who, though being “bird-lovers”, sometimes ask for certain “crazy” individuals that continually hack holes in their summer houses to be culled. The precise reason why some birds do this is unclear, but presumably they are searching for prey that reside in the timber walls; it has even been suggested that high-frequency electrical sounds in the building fool the birds into thinking that invertebrates are present. This photo shows the work of a Great Spotted Woodpecker D. major on on a shed near Pasohlavky, Czech Republic, in April 2010.