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Breeding Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers in 2019
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Nest Recording in 2018
Male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker feeding young © Julie Redford
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker nest with 6 eggs © Ken and Linda Smith
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker nest with three young, two males and a female © Ken and Linda Smith
Nest inspection camera on extended poles © L Smith
Close-up of nest camera © L Smith
Latest news
New job opportunity working on Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers
We are excited to let you know of this new job at RSPB
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker research assistant.
Woodpecker Network is supporting a new research project at RSPB aimed at identifying whether breeding success of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers is limited by food supply, by providing supplementary food and monitoring nest outcomes. The RSPB is looking for someone with good organisational, communications and practical fieldwork skills to support the project.
Learn more about Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers from Ken Smith on YouTube
Bars and Spots- varying fortunes of our British woodpeckers
Ken Smith, the UK's leading woodpecker expert, considers the decrease in Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers compared with the rise of Great Spotted Woodpeckers in an on-line talk for British Ornithologists Club (BOC) now available on YouTube – https://boc-online.org/meetings/upcoming-meeting. ,