Tag: White-backed Woodpecker

Birding

Bavarian Alps Part I – Karwendel Mountains

August 10, 2024 by Luca 4 Comments

One of the highlights of my summer holidays was a week-long hiking trip with two birding friends I met last year while volunteering at...

Birding, Lists

A Balkan Top Ten

August 8, 2024 by David T 6 Comments

Take a quick look at the breeding distribution of European birds and you will see that there are a surprising number of species that...

Birds

Talking of woodpeckers…

December 21, 2017 by Dragan 2 Comments

As tree crowns grow thinner, Autumn becomes the true woodpecker season. September in the Balkans started with the usual unruly bunch of Lesser Spotted,...

Trips

The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

October 27, 2016 by Dragan 4 Comments

I dipped a bird recently – possibly a lifer. While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker flew over the road and...

Trips

Searching for a White-backed Woodpecker

June 30, 2012 by Corey 10 Comments

The White-backed Woodpecker is the hardest resident woodpecker to find in Europe. Dendrocopos leucotos is absent from western Europe but is found in northern,...

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