But it is worth listening carefully to the drumming for one that is subtly different and might lead you to a much rarer bird, the lesser spotted woodpecker. The larger woodpecker's drumming is a ...

The lesser-spotted woodpecker and the willow tit are the latest birds to attract the attention of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, which will now be collating records on them in an attempt halt their ...

followed by the much chunkier green woodpecker with its jaunty red cap and loud laughing call. The lesser spotted woodpecker is, as its name implies, smaller. However, the name has recently taken on a ...