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| White-backed Woodpecker |
BIRD OF THE DAY
The White-backed Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) live mainly in the Palaearctic. Its range extends from southern and central Scandinavia, over eastern Europe, in a belt east to Japan and the Kamchatka Peninsula. The distribution area's center lies in the southern taiga. In Europe there are surviving populations in the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Carpathians, in the southern Apennines and in the southwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula.The White-backed Woodpecker feeds mostly of beetles and their larvae and other insects that they find among the decayed trees, but also nuts, seeds and berries.
