Green Woodpecker

Name: Green Woodpecker

Scientific name: Picus viridis

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 40

What are nature stars?

About: A large woodpecker, about the same size as a dove. Olivey green all over, with a red crown and black arond the face.Woodpeckers nest in holes that they excavate in trees. Often seen hopping about on the floor, where they eat ants. Woodpeckers have a bound

How to identify: Unmistakeable. Males have a red moustache surrounded by black. Females have a black moustache.

Where: Widespread, although absent from northern Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 70
• Agility: 70
• Rarity: 40
• Cute factor: 70
• Traveller: 30

Fantastic fact: An old country name is the Yaffle. Professor Yaffle was a character in the classic children's programme Bagpuss.

Photograph credit: Photo credit tbc