Woodpecker Photographers: Jari Peltomäki

This is the first in a series of posts highlighting photographers whose work includes great shots of European woodpeckers. First up is Jari Peltomäki

from Finland. This great shot of a male Eurasian Three toed Woodpecker Picoides t. tridactylus was taken near Oulu, Finland, in 1999.

Grey-headed (Grey-faced) Woodpecker Clip

This Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus (aka Grey-faced Woodpecker) was filmed foraging on a wall in a stone quarry in northern Hungary in January 2010. It is not clear whether the bird is collecting minerals or invertebrates from the surface. Dan Bastaja, who filmed the bird, says the bird had soil on its beak and seemed to be eating it. There is a lot of windy background noise, but it is nevertheless a great clip.

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Can you name these two species ? And age ? And sex ?

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This should be quite easy. But is it ? Which European woodpecker species is it ? And why ? And the sex ?

Gallery: Black Woodpecker in Winter

This female (note that only the rear crown is red) Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius was photographed in the Danube Delta, Romania, in December 2009 by Daniel Petrescu.

WINTER WOODPECKER

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Photo of this adult male Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major, taken in Hungary by Laszlo Becsy.

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Here is a pair of Middle Spotted Woodpeckers Dendrocopos medius snapped by Uku Paal in Estonia. They are the least dimorphic of all European "pied" woodpeckers. So, which is the male and which is the female?