Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Gray-headed Woodpecker
Picus canus
- uncommon
- 48 km/h
- Least Concern
A quiet ghost of the oak woods — softer than its green cousins, with a clean gray face and a single bright spark of red on the crown. Pairs answer each other across the canopy in slow, descending whistles.
- Population
- broad range; population large but locally declining in parts of Europe
- Habitat
- deciduous and mixed woodland, orchards, forest edge across the Palearctic and East Asia
- Diet
- ants and their pupae, beetle larvae, other ground and bark insects
- Size
- 0.28 m
- Wingspan
- 0.45 m
