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
Abyssinian woodpecker and ecology of the Abyssinian woodpecker is almost unknown. It is an unobtrusive bird which probes for food among moss growing on trees. It is thought that the nesting period probably runs between December and May. The Abyssinian woodpecker has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable and is currently classed as Least Concern but it is thought to be decreasing in population and contracting its range due to continuing clearance of woodlands. Abyssinian woodpecker The Abyssinian woodpecker ("Dendropicos abyssinicus"), also known as the "golden-backed woodpecker" or the "golden-mantled woodpecker", is a species of