Reference photo — Alexis Lours, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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European Green Woodpecker
Picus viridis
Moderate
Least concern
Not photographed yet
Distribution
Range
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Range: iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0) · Base map: Natural Earth (public domain)
Quick facts
- Group
- Birds
- Family
- Picidae
- Size
- 30–36 cm (length)
- Weight
- 140–200 g
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Lifespan
- 7–10 yrs
- Habitat
- Open woodland, Parkland, Orchards, Grassland
About
The European green woodpecker, also known as the yaffle and sometimes called a nickle, is a large green woodpecker with a bright red crown and a black moustache. Males have a red centre to the moustache stripe which is absent in females. It is resident across much of Europe and the western Palearctic but in Spain and Portugal it is replaced by the similar Iberian green woodpecker.
Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), abridged.