Rare Black Woodpecker Family Caught on Camera

In the dark forests of Poland, rarely filmed black woodpeckers feed their hungry chicks.

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“Woodpeckers: The Hole Story“ premieres November 2, 2022, at 8|7c on PBS.

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Black woodpeckers in Poland are elusive and have rarely been filmed. A pair of these large, imposing birds make a home in a beech tree, where they feed their hungry chicks.

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[sunchildgaia]

magnificent creatures. Woodpecker pair always keep a tab on each other by calling out. It is so cute!

[Scraggledust]

❤️ We have a red-headed woodpeckers that made a home in a telephone pole next to our house. I enjoy watching them. We have also spotted two scissor tailed flycatchers with their pretty pink bellies. Hopefully it means their population is doing better❤

[LydiLouiKats]

I'm a bird lover! This is unbelievably cool! Thank you for sharing! 🐦

[alvaroq]

I wouldn’t mind that kind of existence. No care in the world and enjoying what they were born to do ❤️

[SirFloofy]

Ive never been outside America, I'm always amazed at how woodpeckers from different sides of the planet can look so similar.

[dertythegrower]

Incredible camera work... this is something requiring more effort than the entire staff at NewsHour... Never stop funding this show, PBS.

[Useruytrw]

Heartening to see deep wilderness still found in Poland

[GalateaPolifemo]

Thank you so very much for your beautiful video!

[RamonQuiro]

How do they know which chicks have been fed more than the others? Or I should say, how do they distribute the food evenly amongst the chicks?

[adriennefriend]

I adore Black Woodpeckers. Thanks so much for sharing.

[tristramstout]

I’m always impressed with the ingenuity of film makers. I would love to see how they managed to find that nest, then managed to reach it and install a camera or cameras inside and outside. I am quite impressed that they did all of this without disturbing the adult birds.

[gato]

I've never seen Poland, outside of Warsaw, & big cities 🙏


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[phasm]

How did they get those shots inside the nest 😮

[Junketh]

Some of Europe’s biggest woodpeckers, about the size of a crow.

[christinebethencourt]

Thank you to you for the video and thank you to nowadays technology to be able filming as we are also in the tree nest 🤗

[FoxtrotAlpha]

Amazing Nature beautifully captured 👌👌

[taze]

Reminds me of the (extinct) critically endangered Ivory-billed Woodpecker of north america.

[jupiterr]

At first I thought someone was 🪚 sawing logs or something, then I realized it was the chicks making the sound! 😆

[shakdizzle]

We definitely need woodpeckers not to go extinct. It seems every time they make a nest whole and move on from that whole other animals make that very same nest whole a home.

[victoryfirst]

This is so cool. These birds are just the best. Hope they will get help and be moved to USA. That would work for me.