'Professor Yaffle', a wooden woodpecker, featured in which children's TV series?
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
Levaillant's woodpecker green woodpecker. The call is a loud ringing laugh, "plue, plue, plue", very like the green woodpecker’s yaffle, but perhaps slightly faster. This woodpecker’s insect food is captured by a rapid outward flick of the long tongue, and gummed to its tip by sticky saliva. Though a large and heavy bird it has an easy, bounding flight. The nest is a hole in a tree, and 4-8 glossy white eggs are laid on wood chips. Levaillant's woodpecker The Levaillant’s woodpecker or Levaillant’s green woodpecker ("Picus vaillantii") is a large African member of the woodpecker family Picidae. Levaillant's woodpecker is sometimes