Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Lesser Spotted feeding Great Spotted

I have received this very interesting note by email from Russia...
"Earlier this month a Moscow bird photographer recorded a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker feeding (on several occasions) the young of a Greater Spotted Woodpecker pair in Vladimir province.

Photos can be seen at http://www.rbcu.ru/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6586 .

Vladimir Fridman (a local woodpecker expert) has done a quick literature search, but so far hasn't been able to find any mention of similar cases for these two species". I have heard (but not seen) about such things. Have you seen one woodpecker species feeding the young of another ?

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