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European Spotted Woodpecker
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Description: "Picus major. European Spotted Woodpecker. Bill more or less nearly equal to head in length, stout, straight, truncate at tip, bevelled toward end, with sharp culmen and distinct lateral ridges on upper mandible; at base rather broader than high, with large nasal tufts hiding the nostrils; culmen, commissure and gonys straight or nearly so. Feet with the outer posterior longer than outer anterior toe; inner anterior intermediate between these. Wing long, pointed by the 4th, 3d, and 5th quills; 2d decidedly shorter (shorter than 7th, except in P. borealis); 1st fairly spurious. Species of medium and small size. All black and white (one brown-backed), the back striped or barred, the wings with numerous small round white spots on the quills; Male with red on the head." Elliot Coues, 1884
Source: Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1884) 477
Keywords: birds, ornithology, European birds, Eurasian birds, omnivorous birds, woodpeckers, Picus major European Spotted Woodpecker, kwoodpecker
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