European green woodpecker but is made sticky by secretions from the enlarged salivary glands. Heavy, prolonged snow cover makes feeding difficult for the green woodpecker and can result in high mortality, from which it may take 10 years for the population to recover. Ant nests can be located under the snow; one bird was observed to dig 85 cm to reach a nest. 'Professor Yaffle', the wooden bookend character in the 1974 children's animation series "Bagpuss", was based loosely upon the green woodpecker. 'Yaffle' was among many English folk names for the European green woodpecker relating to its laughing call; others include laughing
An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann preserved the last remnants of an Irish dialect and workings of rural life in an Irish-speaking community. One English translator of the book likens the significance of this work to humanity and restoring confidence in fragments of history. The work has been translated to standardized Irish in 1960, and then went onto be translated into English and made available to a much larger audience larger than only the Irish-speaking public. It is available on Amazon, Google Books, World Cat, and other platforms by consumer demand. An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann is a memoir