{"id":25359,"date":"2012-11-05T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:13:56","slug":"green-woodpecker-picus-viridis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Woodpecker Picus viridis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae and occurs in most parts of Europe and in western Asia. The Green Woodpecker spends much of its time feeding on ants on the ground and does not often &#8216;drum&#8217; on trees like other woodpecker species.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Eurasian Green Woodpecker\u00a0<i>Picus\u00a0viridis<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-231-25359\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2632\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis-4.jpg\" title=\"Kaien SG, Switzerland\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kaien SG, Switzerland\" alt=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/thumbs\/thumbs_green-woodpecker-picus-viridis-4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1663\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis-3.jpg\" title=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) at Rheindelta, Hoechster Ried, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) at Rheindelta, Hoechster Ried, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/thumbs\/thumbs_green-woodpecker-picus-viridis-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1662\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis-2.jpg\" title=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) at Rheindelta, Hoechster Ried, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) at Rheindelta, Hoechster Ried, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/thumbs\/thumbs_green-woodpecker-picus-viridis-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1661\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis-1.jpg\" title=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) at Rheinspitz, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) at Rheinspitz, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/green-woodpecker-picus-viridis\/thumbs\/thumbs_green-woodpecker-picus-viridis-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae and occurs in most parts of Europe and in western Asia. The Green Woodpecker spends much of its time feeding on ants on the ground and does not often &#8216;drum&#8217; on trees like other woodpecker species. Factsheet: Eurasian Green Woodpecker\u00a0Picus\u00a0viridis\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":831366,"parent":17619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[2167,2168],"class_list":["post-25359","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-green-woodpecker","tag-picus-viridis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25359\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}