ALL THE BEST FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON  TO ALL FRIENDS OF WOODPECKERS  (and everyone else, too, I suppose) Eurasian Green Woodpecke...

If you use FACEBOOK, then check out, join, and contribute to the WOODPECKERS OF THE WORLD GROUP:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/143805861...

After many years of research and writing, my new book WOODPECKERS OF THE WORLD: A Photographic Guide will be published next summer. I am...

A great pose and image of a Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major . Taken in Austria by Gerhard Rotheneder.

Male White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos , nominate race. Bukk Hills, October 2013, Gerard Gorman.

In this classic picid pose, this female Black Woodpecker shows how she uses her feet to cling to bark and her tail to act as a prop and p...

Here is a nice close-up image of a Grey-faced (aka Grey-headed) Woodpecker male. This species ranges from Europe right across Eurasia to ...