Euroasian Three-toed Woodpecker |
BIRD OF THE DAY
Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) has circumpolar distribution in the taiga throughout the Holarctic.It breeds throughout the northern coniferous forest belt of north-eastern Poland, the Baltic states and central Scandinavia, east to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Hokkaido.
The three-toed woodpecker feeds mainly on insects, which it catches by hacking or poke in the bark.