🦉 The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
📚 Dryocopus (Greek): drys, dendron - tree; kopos, koptō - hit
📚 martius (lat.) : warlike, fighting; March
The woodpecker is large, very beautiful and with a long neck and beak.
A real forest ripper! Sometimes, walking through the forest, you can see not just holes in the trees, but as if the bark was ripped off them. This is the work of the black woodpecker.
Unlike other species, this woodpecker is very persistent and stubborn. He will not fly off the tree until he examines it very carefully.
And with the arrival of spring, these woodpeckers love to inspect old broken trees and stumps, because at this time, with the arrival of heat, ants that he loves to eat slowly begin to appear.
