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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Male. Latin name - Dendrocopos major

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major), clinging to birch tree trunk, The Netherlands, November.

Male great spotted woodpecker on a birch tree, holding a piece of nut in its beak

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) female bird feeding a chick in its nest hole in a tree during springtime in a forest.

Beautiful ecology and nature landscape with a family of colored woodpeckers feeding their hatchlings in a tree hole nest in the woods

Great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

Woodpecker on a tree taking care of his nest

Female great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) climbing on an apple tree.

Greated spotted woodpecker on birch tree on a snowy day in winter

$L 23-26 cm. WS 38-44 cm.\nBreeds in all kinds of woodland, especially with stands of spruce and pine (Conifer seeds important winter food), also larger parks and gardens.; in Britain mostly in deciduous/mixed woods, often with good element of aspen and waterlogged regrowth.\nAlert and cautious, but in winter may visit bird tables etc.\nFood insects, conifer seeds, at times also bird eggs and nestlings. In some autumns, when cone crop fails in northern taiga, makes invasion-like migrations to S and SW.\nNest in all sort of soft Wood, such as Birch. Entrance c. 5x6 cm.\n\nThis is a very common Species in the Dutch Forests.$