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
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