co 32 cm of length is green-woodpeckers in west and Central Europe as well as Kaukasien the biggest representatives of the woodpeckers after the black-woodpecker.
Shape Both sexes, mainly green colored, red head-upper sides ("vertexes") have, differs through the differently-colored beard-stripe, however, that with the female purely black, with the male green-woodpecker against it red with black border is.
Food Green-woodpeckers (and gray-woodpeckers) look mainly for its food - preferably ants and dolls - for itself on the ground, with what they can chop quite deep holes in the ground. In the winter, they frequently chisel the big residential-constructions of the red forest-ants (ants) on, (only in 50 cm of depth or under it) in order to reach the spending the winter insects.
Habitat Green-woodpeckers prefer open foliage-forests, also is gladly in gardens or parks, however. They choose to the construction of the brood-cave usually perished or partially rotten areas of bigger foliage-trees.
Reproduction Both partners build the Nisthöhle together, after been found it under loud, far-to resounding Balzrufen ("neigh") and verpaart have.
Green-woodpeckers are much more amicable than other woodpecker-types against each other, also opposite its boys, they show more "tolerance." Both parents erbrüten together the 5-7 eggs, from which the bare boys slip after 15-17 days. Also, the Aufzucht share the alto-birds; both feed with high-choked food: mainly ants and their dolls, but also some others insect. After 18-21 days, the squabs become fully-fledged and stay together in until into the autumn with one of the two parents.
Gray-woodpecker (Picus canus)) it very near relative smaller (until 25 cm big) gray-woodpecker also is colored green on the upper side, has a lighter, gray underside and (only the male) a small red vertex as well as much narrower beard-strips, however, as the green-woodpecker.
Habitat and way of life resemble those of the green-woodpecker. The spread-area stretches further to north and Eastern Asia.
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