Gallery: Syrian Woodpecker Close-up

Close-up of a Syrian Woodpecker. This is the female from the photo in the previous post, though on this shot, at this angle, it is hard to see that. 

Gallery: Syrian Woodpeckers

Three Syrian Woodpeckers. A female, on the left, waits while two males display to each other. September, 2011, Csepel, Budapest, Szabolcs Kokay. Click the photo to enlarge. 

Gallery: Black Woodpecker male

Male Black Woodpecker, Buda Hills, Hungary, September 2011. Gerard Gorman.

Signs: Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker

This dead spruce has been worked by a Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus in search of bark-beetles. The bark has been pecked and also lifted up and off to expose the beetles underneath. This woodpecker often specialises in preying on such beetles (Ips and Polygraphus species) and increases in number locally when the insects are abundant. Photo by Gerard Gorman taken in southern Poland.

Gallery: Green Woodpecker male

Adult male Eurasian Green Woodpecker Picus viridis. Note the red in the malar stripe which females lack. This photo taken by Mladen Vasilev in Bulgaria.