European green woodpecker
The European green woodpecker was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his "Systema Naturae" under its current binomial name "Picus viridis". The type locality is Sweden. The scientific name is derived from the Latin "picus", meaning "woodpecker", and "viridis" meaning "green". It is member of the order Piciformes and the woodpecker family Picidae.