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GREEN WOODPECKER

The Green Woodpecker (Picus virdis) is a large, pale, bright coloured bird of the Woodpecker family Picidae, natural order Piciformes. The Green Woodpecker has a cylindrical, barrel-shaped body with pale green, brownish plumage and a striking yellow rump and a red cap to the top of its head. The Green Woodpecker spends most of its time on the ground feeding on ants, ant eggs and larvae. The Green Woodpecker nests in a large hole in a tree, and is to be found near woodlands, feeding in grassy clearings before flying back to the trees when danger approaches. Green Woodpeckers are found in England, Wales and across Europe, but are absent from Scotland, Ireland and Scandinavia except the southern parts.
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WOODPECKER

Woodpecker is a general name for the members of the large Picidae family of birds of the order Scansores, which is usually regarded as including two sub- families - the woodpeckers proper (Picus) and the soft-tailed wrynecks (Yunx) . The woodpeckers are climbing birds, the feet having two anterior and two posterior toes. The head is large and the neck very muscular and the tongue exceedingly long and worm-like with a barbed horny tip. It can be shot out to a great distance, and is sticky so that the insects upon which the birds feed stick to it.

All woodpeckers are shy solitary birds inhabiting woods. When in search of food they climb trees in a spiral fashion, clinging closely with the claws assisted by the tail. At the breeding season the woodpecker excavates a hole in the stem of a tree at first horizontal and then downward to the depth of thirty centimetres or more. At the bottom of the excavation the pure white eggs are laid.
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FAUNUS

In Roman mythology, Faunus was a king who instructed his subjects in agriculture and the management of flocks. Afterwards he was worshiped as the god of fields and shepherds, rather like the Greek Pan, with whom he became associated and whose attributes he acquired. He was the son of Picus and the grandson of Saturn. His female counterpart was Fauna.
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PICUS

Picus was a Roman god. He was the son of Saturnus and father of Faunus. His wife was Canens. He was a prophet and god of the forest.
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