THe lesser spotted is not an easy bird to see, being truly tiny, about the same size as a house sparrow and Europe's smallest woodpecker. It is barred across the back, not spotted like the great ...

Young great spotted woodpecker by Ian Rotherham It is the young birds that can cause confusion and I do get messages from readers claiming to have a ‘lesser spotted woodpecker’ in their gardens.

The doorbell footage features a juvenile great spotted woodpecker—often mistaken for their rarer relative the lesser spotted woodpecker because of their red crowns.

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THE New Forest has become one of the last remaining strongholds for a “vanishing” breed of woodpecker, it has been revealed. Experts say numbers of the lesser spotted woodpecker, pictured ...

THEY are the smallest and least surveyed woodpeckers in the UK and on the danger list of threatened species, but lesser spotted woodpeckers continue their characteristic drumming on RSPB Cymru's ...

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 ...

I HAVE had an opportunity lately of observing closely the habits of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Picus minor) as regards the very peculiar sound which it makes upon trees by the action of its bill.

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 ...