The Great Spotted Woodpecker, with its brown camouflage colours, is a completely different species of woodpecker than the well-known Great Spotted Woodpecker. In the Netherlands it is a rare migrant bird. It nests in holes in trees, especially in birch. Only during the breeding season do turnstones often sit, like the other woodpeckers, on a tree trunk; the rest of the year mostly on the ground. They feed on ants in poor pioneer vegetation on sandy soils. They hibernate in Africa south of the Sahara. The population of the swiftlets has declined since the early 1960s, particularly in areas outside the Veluwe. But the species has also declined in the Veluwe. This continuing decline, as elsewhere in western and central Europe, brought the number of turnstones down to around 200 pairs around 1975. Since the turn of the century, there are at most a few dozen pairs.
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