Species of woodpecker, perhaps the black woodpecker, Dryocopus martius, Picus martius. De Avibus, ein grosser schwarzer Specht. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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