Season's Greetings!

Hoping for many woodpeckers in 2019! 

Syrian Woodpecker male

Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopos syriacus, Hungary, 2018. This woodpecker often frequents urban areas and seeing one, like this adult male, on a wooden utility pole is not unusual at all.

Wryneck in the hand

A Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla about to be released after being caught and ringed (banded). Near Bourgas, eastern Bulgaria, September 2018 (Gerard Gorman). 

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker removing egg

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Dryobates minor), River Park, Pamplona, Spain. This great image taken by Alfonso Senosiain shows a male removing an egg from its own nest. Presumably the egg was infertile and the woodpecker simply wanted to keep the cavity clean. Woodpeckers are known to keep their nesting holes tidy.

Woodpecker - a book from in the Animal Series

If you are interested in woodpeckers in the context of "a new kind of animal history" (as described by the publisher Reaktion Books) then this book is for you. It focuses not only on the natural history of the picid family but also their cultural history. It explore and delves into the fascination that humankind has had for woodpeckers since ancient times, in myth, legend, science. See here WOODPECKER for more.

A new WOODPECKER book

My next book is due out this October. On woodpeckers, of course! Gerard Gorman

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rspb-spotlight-woodpeckers-9781472951182/