It is not unusual to see a vertical line of woodpecker holes on a tree. This is often the result of a pair of woodpeckers having created new...

Which European woodpecker species is this ?

Can you identify this European woodpecker ? Thanks to Bob Campbell-Barr for the photo.

Here is a photo of a feeding site of a woodpecker (taken this May in the Soomaa National Park, Estonia). Several things point to this being ...

Here are three fine photos of a displaying / courting pair of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers. By Will Forest Taken in Yorkshire, UK.

Another quiz woodpecker without the actual bird! Which woodpecker made these holes? What is the purpose of this work ? That is, just what is...

Middle Spotted Woodpecker does not regularly drum. Females probably do not drum at all. Any drumming that is done by this species is rather ...