Woodpecker | Great BLACK Woodpecker
Woodpecker | Great BLACK Woodpecker
Big black woodpecker, he's also Yellow. A woodpecker is knocking in the Siberian forest.
Yellow, or black woodpecker (Latin Dryocopus martius) is a forest bird from the family of woodpeckers, widespread in the belt of forests of Eurasia. Within the range, this species of woodpeckers is fairly easy to identify - with its large size and black plumage with a red cap, it differs markedly from other woodpeckers. A sedentary bird, a black woodpecker, only during the out-of-breeding period sometimes makes small migrations outside the range. Lives apart, couples are formed only for the breeding season. Nests a black woodpecker in mature high-altitude forests, where he chooses high dead or diseased trees without branches, in which he knocks out a hollow. The black woodpecker feeds on wood insects, including ants.
This is the largest woodpecker in the Western Palearctic, its size is only slightly inferior to rook - unlike this crow has a more slender physique, a long thin neck and a long tail. Length 42-49 cm, weight 250-450 g, wingspan 64-80 cm.
The plumage of the adult male black woodpecker is brilliantly black, except for the top of the head, which has a bright red spot in the form of a cap from the base of the beak to the neck. The female feathers are also black, but in comparison with the male it is duller and has a brownish hue, the red spot is small and developed only at the nape.
There are two subspecies of black woodpecker: nominated D. m. martius, spread over most of the territory, and D. m. khamensis, whose area of distribution is limited to Southwest China and Tibet (Qinghai to the south to north-west Yunnan). The skull is yellow (black woodpecker) massive, its distinctive feature is the large occipital crests absent from other woodpeckers; their appearance is associated with active lateral movements of the head.
Crickly throughout the year; has a sonorous voice, audible at a great distance.