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GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



thickly studded parks and plantations. It nests in the 

 New Forest, but is described as " thinly distributed 

 and wandering in autumn ". It is a resident bird, 

 whose numbers are increased in the autumn by 

 visitors from the continent. 



The Great Spotted Woodpecker spends most of its 

 life on trees ; searching their branches and trunks for 



GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 



food by day, and roosting in holes in them by night. 

 Its food consists principally of insects, but it also eats 

 fruit in summer, nuts and berries in autumn. It is a 

 curious sight to see this bird working its way up the 

 trunk of a tree, peering about in every direction and 

 tapping on the bark as it goes, travelling round and 



