Middle spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos medius) feeding chicks in the cavity

Middle spotted woodpecker is slightly smaller than the much more Great spotted woodpecker. It is a threatened and legally protected bird.
It is relatively easy to distinguish from Great spotted woodpecker, because it has a red top of its head, and a much weaker beak. Another difference visible at first glance is another drawing on the head and neck and the lower crowns under the tail are pink. The red top has male, female and young birds. Female females are poorly recognizable. The female has only a slightly smaller red cap that passes on the back to the yellowish color.
It occurs mainly in Central and Eastern Europe. The west of its population reaches France and northern Spain.
It occupies predominantly deciduous and mixed forests and almost always only those in which oaks grow. Its requirements for the composition and the extent of the forest are very specific and are therefore much less represented in other forests. Where old sick or inanimate lawn trees take off and remove its populations, it rapidly changes or disappears completely.
It is predominantly insectivorous, which sometimes does not feed on seeds or fruits, sometimes licks the sap of trees. It is a monogamous species where the cavities in both the male and female trees in the spring sink together. In the cavity, which is about 2-3 weeks old, the female can withstand 5-6 eggs on which the parents alternate between 11 and 12 days. The youngsters then feed for approximately three weeks in the nesting cavity and sexually mature in the first year of their life.
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