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Matti Nuorteva (email), Lennart Saari

Winter ecology of a female White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos (Bechstein).

Nuorteva M., Saari L. (1996). Winter ecology of a female White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos (Bechstein). Silva Fennica vol. 30 no. 1 article id 5576. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a9221

Abstract

In the winter of 1977/78, a White-backed Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos Bechstein) was observed in the archipelago of southwestern Finland 200 km from its breeding areas. It foraged on insects living in mall dead alder and birches. The potential prey species were identified by rearing the insects from the trunks used by the White-backed Woodpecker. Altogether 628 adult insects emerged. In addition to the big larvae the potential food also included larvae of Sciaridae and Cecidomyidae (Diptera) living in dense clumps.

Keywords
winter food; Dendrocopos leucotos; white-backed woodpecker; prey insects; sawflies

Published in 1996

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