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Specimen information:

Catalog number: MZB 2009-0328
Scientific name : Picus viridis Linnaeus, 1758
Common name: Green Woodpecker
Element: jaw
Location: Palau de Santa Eulàlia
Collecting date: 02/01/2009
Sex: male
Acquisition source: CRFS Aiguamolls de l'Empordà
Acquisition Date: 05/05/2009
Biometrics - jaw: Width 55.9mm X Depth 20.8mm

Information about the species:

Chordata ,Vertebrata ,Aves ,Piciformes ,Picidae ,Picus ,Picus viridis

Description:

The Eurasian Green Woodpecker lives in forests in Eurasia. Its small skull is very round and houses a series of cephalic muscles that enable this woodpecker to drill in trees in search of food. Its long, thin triangular bill has a very tough rhamphotheca that, along with the mandibles, forms the bill. As in other species of this order, it finds its food by hammering or drumming on tree trunks. Its long bill enables it to reach food items such as termites and invertebrate larvae and pupae that live in wood.