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Its insect food is similar to that of the Great Spotted Woodpecker.

When hunting for wood-boring larvae it chips away at the rotten wood, and the litter at the foot of a tree is often the first indication that insects are attacking upper branches.

From autumn to spring it hunts mainly on wood-living insect larvae, frequently from thin dead branches in living trees.

Through the breeding season, surface-living insects from the foliage and bark of trees make up an increased amount of the diet.

Nestlings are mainly fed with surface-living insects, such as aphids and larval insects.

At night it roosts in old holes.