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Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus medius)



Up to 22 cm tall, the heat-loving woodpecker breeds in deciduous forest with old oak and beech trees, also in alder forest. Nesting often in a rotten trunk, entrance about 4cm. Only slightly smaller than the Great Spotted Woodpecker, the beak is much shorter compared, the head is more spherical. The tail pink / light red, the apex of which is bright red.