Black woodpecker

This is the biggest woodpecker in Europe. Almost entirely black with a red cap, it eats ants and other insects and larvae which it finds under the bark of trees. The black woodpecker marks its territory with the characteristic noise produced as it drills into dry tree trunks. To rise its chicks, it digs a cavity into a tree. Drilling these “lodgings” requires both the male and the female to work for two or three weeks.