European green woodpecker main food of the European green woodpecker is ants of the genera "Lasius" and "Formica" for which it spends much of its time foraging on the ground, though other insects and small reptiles are also taken occasionally. The bird's distinctive, elongated, cylindrical droppings often consist entirely of ant remains. At ant nests, it probes into the ground and licks up adult ants and their larvae. They have tongues that wrap to the back of their head. Green woodpeckers will often forage in short grazed or mown permanent grasslands where the availability of ant nests is high. A study of a
Yellow-crowned woodpecker red belly patch. Irregular brown cheek and neck patches. Female has yellowish crown and nape. In male nape scarlet and fore-crown yellow. Yellow-crowned woodpecker The yellow-crowned woodpecker ("Leiopicus mahrattensis") or Mahratta woodpecker is a species of small pied woodpecker found in the Indian subcontinent. The Yellow-crowned woodpecker was originally described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name "Picus mahrattensis". The taxonomic committee of the British Ornithologists' Union have recommended that the genera Leiopicus and "Dendrocoptes" and are combined into a larger "Dendropicos". Some taxonomists place this species in the genus "Dendrocopos". A medium-small (17.5 cm,