Grey-headed woodpecker Southern Europe. There is contradictory information regarding its occurrence in Turkey. Most likely, several hundred pairs breed in Mittelgebirge habitats of the Pontic Mountains. The species is absent from the North German Plain, British Isles, Iberian Peninsula, and Mediterranean islands. In Italy, it is confined to the northernmost parts. The grey-headed woodpecker is a somewhat less specialised ant hunter than the European green woodpecker. In its foraging strategy it is intermediate between many "Dendrocopos" species on the one hand, and the often ant-specific members of the genus "Picus". This reduced ant specialisation of the grey-headed woodpecker allows it to be
Little woodpecker Little woodpecker The little woodpecker ("Veniliornis passerinus") is a species of bird in the family Picidae, the woodpeckers, piculets, and wrynecks. It is found in a wide range of wooded habitats in a large part of South America east of the Andes, and generally common. Unlike other similar and comparably sized members of the genus "Veniliornis", the little woodpecker lacks a contrasting yellow nape. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the little woodpecker in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). He used the French name "Le petit pic de