Talk:European green woodpecker

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Perhaps the colour photograph of the green woodpecker should replace the image in the tax box. Snowman 14:28, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I may be wrong but I was always brought up that the term 'Yaffle' extended only to the sound the bird makes, rather than to the bird itself?

Conservation status
While this bird is classified as "least concern" internationally, in Britain the RSPB has given it "amber" status because of a decline in UK numbers. Is this worth mentioning in the article, or is it too country-specific? Perodicticus (talk) 15:22, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Distribution
Not sure which of these is accurate, so I won't try and correct it, but the map and the text don't agree. The map shows the south-eastern limits as the very north-west of Iran; the text suggests karelini is also found on the eastern side of the Caspian Sea, and innominatus extends well down into southern Iran. Shimgray | talk | 14:53, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

I have heard that the Green Woodpecker has been seen near Dublin and near Belfast (Ireland) - but have no references.Osborne 20:24, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Barbed Tongue?
Concerning this, third paragraph under 'food and feeding': ''...the Green Woodpecker's tongue is long (10 cm) and has to be curled around its skull. It lacks the barbs of the Dendrocopos woodpeckers and Black Woodpecker but is made sticky by secretions from the enlarged salivary glands.''

The British Trust for Ornithology (the source of the tongue length) claims the tongue is barbed like other breeds of woodpecker. Can someone who has access to the second source, verify its claim to not being barbed? (BWPi: The Birds of the Western Palearctic on interactive DVD-ROM. ISBN 1-898110-39-5)

--Carbon Rodney 14:47, 31 December 2011 (UTC)