{"id":70799,"date":"2014-04-05T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=70799"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:42:09","slug":"dendrocopos-major-great-spotted-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/dendrocopos-major-great-spotted-woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Great spotted woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comparing 2 females –<\/p>\n

Very easy to tell one from the other: Rose has curious discolored wing tips…. she is quite familiar with the place but remains shy towards other birds:<\/p>\n

2 femelles Pic épeiche fréquentent assidûment le jardin, l’une étant plus blanche et l’autre plus marquée de rose, je les ai surnommées tout naturellement Blanche et Rose!Rose a dû faire les 400 coups quand elle était petite… on dirait qu’elle a trempé le bout de ses ailes dans de l’eau de javel car elles sont bizarrement décolorées! Heu non… je plaisante, les oiseaux muent 2 fois par an!! Elle est très familière, ayant pris ses aises devant l’objectif mais elle demeure timide envers les autres oiseaux!<\/p>\n

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Dendrocopos major, Great spotted woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Elle a vu sa rivale arriver à 60 cm sous elle et se penche en arrière comme chaque fois qu’elle craint une menace:<\/p>\n

Her rival has landed 60 cm below her on the same tree and bends backwards to assess the menace:<\/p>\n

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Dendrocopos major, Great spotted woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Blanche plus farouche, au tempérament plus trempé, fait son apparition sur le même tronc… les 2 filles se jaugent voulant chacune la place pour elle seule!<\/p>\n

Blanche has a more wild temperament and soon both females size each up, wanting the place.<\/p>\n

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Dendrocopos major, Great spotted woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Dendrocopos major, Great spotted woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Dendrocopos major, Great spotted woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Finalement, comme si de rien n’était, Blanche remonte par petits bonds et se retrouve à la hauteur de Rose – qui a tourné et se retrouve droite, un bref face à face d’ 1\/4 de secondes… Coup de chance elles sont exactement au même niveau! Finally, Blanche hops up and they both face each other for a 1\/4 of a second before she flies off… A stroke of luck: they are at the same level to have a good focus on both!<\/p>\n

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Dendrocopos major, Great spotted woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Merci au Nikon 80\/400 mm! …puis s’installe à côté: …to a branch nearby:<\/p>\n

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Dendrocopos major, Great spotted woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Les messieurs ne viennent jamais en même temps que les dames, mais ça c’est une histoire!<\/p>\n

The guys never come when the females are present, but that’s another story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comparing 2 females – Very easy to tell one from the other: Rose has curious discolored wing tips…. she is quite familiar with the place but remains shy towards other birds: 2 femelles Pic épeiche fréquentent assidûment le jardin, l’une étant plus blanche et l’autre plus marquée de rose, je les ai surnommées tout naturellement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2147880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2162,2407,2161,2571],"class_list":["post-70799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-dendrocopos-major","tag-france","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-noushka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}