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The black woodpecker's woodchip works

27.11.2009 - 01:09 |  Looduskalender
Photo: Mats Kangur
Translation: Liis
 
The black woodpecker’s carpentry.
 
If, in the middle of a forest, you should suddenly come across wood chips as if fallen from the sky (see photo), some ten centimetres long, spilled over an area of several square metres, then what you have is the result of the black woodpecker’s  (Dryocopus martius) “beakcraft“, it has hammered hollows into the tree. As if someone had been working on the tree with a hand axe, but nobody would be doing carpentry work deep in an old forest.
The hammerings of other woodpeckers don’t produce chips, just sawdust-like material. The “axe blows“ of the black woodpecker however are unbelievably forceful, the chips are just the size for lighting a fire. If you lean backwards you will be sure to discover fresh hollows somewhere along the tree trunk. The black woodpecker can be seen the year round, mostly in conifer and mixed forests.

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