🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
📚 Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit
📚 martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March
Stylish, handsome woodpecker with a long neck and crazy eyes.
Males have a long red cap on their heads, along the entire length of the top of the head. And females have this hat only on the back of the head.
It's funny to see these guys in the spring. When the snow is already warm and melting, the ants begin their activity. And these woodpeckers love to feast on them, so they investigate the fallen trees or the anthills themselves. This woodpecker is very loud and its catchy cry can be heard from afar. Most often, you can hear the sound of calls and the sound that they play when flying.
