Residents of the Tula Region noticed the Red Data Book gray-headed woodpecker 
Residents of Novomoskovsk spotted the gray-headed woodpecker included in the Red Book. This is reported by TSN 24.
A resident of the city said that his attention was attracted by the steady knocking of a woodpecker on the feeder. “Usually the middle spotted woodpecker comes to us for the third year, but he knows the feeder, takes the seeds carefully, in short, he does not vandalize, and in general is a cultured and intelligent bird – this one tried to open it, but as soon as I went to the window – immediately flew to a nearby tree “, – he noted.
Specialist of the Tula exotarium Alexei Yevsyunin and a famous zoologist, host of the TV show” In the animal world “Nikolai Drozdov explained the behavior of the bird in the city. “The gray-headed woodpecker is much less common than the small, medium or large spotted woodpecker. It is interesting, of course, that he behaved this way. Rare birds, when they arrive in cities, always look around and look around, and after checking the situation they fly further. You have to look for a girlfriend and create a couple, ”he said. According to Drozdov, such a craving for vandalism and wild behavior is not surprising – rare birds do not often interact with people.