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Mal great spotted woodpecker climbing on a tree stump covered with moss

The Great Spotted Woodpecker in the snow

Male great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) bird sitting on a tree next to a hole while feeding a chick in its nest hole in a tree during springtime in a forest.

a great spotted woodpecker steals a peanut from a squirrel feeder

Greater Spotted Woodpecker on a bird feeder.

Great spotted woodpecker perching on a terracotta bird feeder in my back yard.

Beautiful ecology and nature landscape with a family of colored woodpeckers feeding their hatchlings in a tree hole nest in the woods

Great woodpecker eating sunflowers seed on feeder

Greater spotted woodpecker resting on a tree trunk base. Taken in Finland.

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) Germany

$L 23-26 cm. WS 38-44 cm.\nBreeds in all kinds of woodland, especially with stands of spruce and pine (Conifer seeds important winter food), also larger parks and gardens.; in Britain mostly in deciduous/mixed woods, often with good element of aspen and waterlogged regrowth.\nAlert and cautious, but in winter may visit bird tables etc.\nFood insects, conifer seeds, at times also bird eggs and nestlings. In some autumns, when cone crop fails in northern taiga, makes invasion-like migrations to S and SW.\nNest in all sort of soft Wood, such as Birch. Entrance c. 5x6 cm.\n\nThis is a very common Species in the Dutch Forests.$