Great Spotted Woodpecker.The scientific name of Great Spotted Woodpecker is Dendrocopos major, belonging to the family of woodpeckers in the order Gadiformes of the bird class. The male bird has a black head, a red pillow, white eyes, cheeks, and ear feathers, a dirty white neck, a black stripe from the base of the lower mouth to the back neck and connected to a black band extending from the neck to the chest side, a black back and wings, a large white patch on the shoulders, white transverse spots on the wings, black tail, white black spots on the outer tail feathers, dirty white on the front chest and abdomen, and red spots from the lower abdomen to the lower tail The female bird resembles the male bird but has no red pillow Iris dark red, mouth gray black, feet black brown.
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