It is barred across the back, not spotted like the great, and the male has a red crown. Lesser spotted woodpeckers have never been as common as the great spotted but are declining at such a rate ...

Incredible photos show a handsome bird spotted by a Camera Club member. Hereford Times Camera Club member, Pat Gorin, shared two photos of ...

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.

Great spotted woodpeckers also have a blood red splash under the tail which lessers lack while male lesser have a crimson red crown and the females a dull white crown. Their favourite habitat is ...

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 ...

In England we used to see green woodpeckers, great spotted woodpeckers and lesser spotted woodpeckers. Of course, the lesser spotted was spotted less often. None of these woodpeckers reach Israel ...

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 ...

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 ...

The male with his red patch on the back of ... and I do get messages from readers claiming to have a ‘lesser spotted woodpecker’ in their gardens. This is because they have a smallish ...