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.

Quiz woodpecker 33

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 ?