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Black woodpecker’s beak-work

 

 

If you should suddenly come across wood chips in the forest, about ten centimetres long and scattered across an area of several square meters as if fallen from the sky, then it is the beak-work of the black woodpecker who has been hacking a hollow in a tree.

 

The chopping of other woodpeckers will not produce chips, only a sawdust-like material. The axe-like blows of the black woodpecker however are unbelievably powerful, with such chips a fire can be lit. If you lean over backwards you will surely see a fresh hollow in the trunk. We can meet black woodpeckers all year round in conifer as well as deciduous forests.