“January and February are the months when the great spotted woodpeckers already start to hold territory. If you are walking in the forest now and you hear that drumming of a great spotted woodpecker, he is not looking for food, but then he is entering his territory. defining it,” says Luc. “He then looks for a branch that is a bit hollow on the inside, and he uses that as a sound box, just like an instrument. The hollower the branch, the fuller the sound. So then you see him sitting somewhere above a tree, on a dead branch, and then trrrr, and that echoes through the entire forest. Just pay attention to it. If you hear it, the sound, it can carry hundreds of meters away, then it is breeding near here And both the male and the female both have that behavior, that trrrr, that drumming, because that strengthens the bond between the two birds. So if they are drumming together, making music together, then it is a pair that will stay together for a very long time.”
Peanut butter and drum roll, that’s what the great spotted woodpecker is all about
