Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1516 🐦 (+video)

🦉 The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

📚 Dendrocopos Greek: dendron tree, coptō to hit, beat
📚 major (lat.) large

In winter, during frost and terrible cold weather, it is not easy for birds to live in the forest. There is little food, insects hide deep under the bark, and to get them you need to spend a lot of effort, which takes away energy, which is very important, because it warms the body.

In this regard, woodpeckers have to eat plant foods, especially coniferous seeds, rich in fatty acids and trace elements.

Woodpeckers hollow out a special hole in the tree so that a cone can be conveniently placed in it, after which seeds are taken out of this cone.