Have you heard a woodpecker 'drumming' on trees in Phoenix Park in Dublin — or elsewhere across the country? The Great Spotted Woodpecker has been confirmed in Dublin's Phoenix Park. The park's name ...

Lesser spotted woodpeckers (Dryobates minor ... Males and females look similar, but an adult male has more red in its ‘moustache stripe’. The strange, primeval cry they utter to warn other birds of ...

A third of the broods are deserted by one of the parents, leaving the other, usually the male, to bring up the young. Lesser spotted woodpeckers glean insects from leaves and there are indications ...

The lesser spotted woodpecker remained perfectly still ... a noise and turned to see the sparrowhawk that had caught the male woodpecker and was pecking at it. "I frightened the sparrowhawk ...

The lesser-spotted woodpecker and the willow tit are the latest birds to attract the attention of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, which will now be collating records on them in an attempt halt their ...

John Aitchison presents the lesser spotted woodpecker. Lesser spotted woodpeckers are the smallest of our three woodpeckers and about the size of a house sparrow. They have horizontal white ...

IN Britain we have three species of woodpecker, namely the green, great spotted and lesser spotted. The green woodpecker is the largest, while the lesser spotted is only sparrow-sized. All three ...

A WOODPECKER which was thought to have almost died out locally has been spotted on a farm in Dorset. The lesser spotted woodpecker was seen at Hollis Mead Organic Dairy Farm in Corscombe by the ...

A lesser spotted woodpecker has been successfully nursed back to health by animal carers, a charity has said. The GSPCA said the bird - named Woodrow by staff - was found badly injured in a gutter ...

These include the green woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker and the smallest and rarest, the lesser spotted woodpecker. The doorbell footage features a juvenile great spotted woodpecker—often ...

A lesser spotted woodpecker has been seen at Hollis Mead organic dairy farm in Corscombe (library picture) A woodpecker that was thought to have almost died out locally has been spotted on a farm ...