Gallery: Male Syrian Woodpecker

Adult male Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopos syriacus.

Note posted the small red nape patch, the incomplete post-auricular stripe, large white forehead patch and fine tip to the bill. Photo taken in Armenia in 2007, by Uku Paal.

Gallery: Three-toed Woodpecker alpinus race female

Adult female Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus alpinus. The bird is carrying larva prey to its young in the nest-hole. Photo by László Bécsy, Volovske Mountains, Slovakia, May 2007.

Gallery: Three-toed Woodpecker alpinus race male

Adult male Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus alpinus. Photo by László Bécsy taken in the Volovske Mountains, Slovakia, May 2007

Three-Toed Woodpecker Feeding Site

Bark of a Norway Spruce Picea abies removed and peeled back by Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus. This woodpecker specialises in predating the larvae of the European Spruce Bark Beetle Ips typographus. The trails of the burrows of the larvae can be clearly seen in this photo. Volovske Mountains, Slovakia, September 2009.

Black Woodpecker: Log Feeding Site

Recent feeding site of Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius on a log on the ground. Lednice, South Moravia, March 2009.

Gallery: Rear View Of Black Woodpecker

This shot of a Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius was taken in northern Greece by Alexandros Gassios. It is hard to see the amount of red on the crown, but it seems that it is fairly extensive and erect thus this is probably a male bird.