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 ...

Lesser spotted woodpeckers prefer to look for insects high up in broadleaved woodlands, and can be missed within a dense canopy of trees. They are usually located by their 'pew, pew, pew' call. Their ...

The Great Spotted Woodpecker is a really easy bird to recognise because of its distinctive drumming and call, and also by its ...

Of course, the lesser spotted was spotted less often. None of these woodpeckers reach Israel – here we see the Syrian woodpecker, which is similar to the great spotted – and is spotted quite ...

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

Woodpeckers are members of the Picidae, an ancient family of birds in the Piciformes order that began to evolve 60 million years ago, a little after the mass dinosaur extinction. All woodpeckers drum, ...

The lesser spotted woodpecker was seen at Hollis Mead Organic Dairy Farm in Corscombe by the Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) during a regular survey. It is a Class 4 endangered bird and on the red list .

The lesser spotted woodpecker was seen at Hollis Mead Organic Dairy Farm in Corscombe by the Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT). Nationally, its population has fallen by 83 per cent since 1970 and there ...

The great-spotted woodpecker has several calls in its repertoire, but it doesn’t actually ‘sing’. Instead, it produces loud staccato-like drumrolls by striking its bill on hollow tree-trunks.

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.