The Forest Doctor: How One Bird Keeps an Entire Forest Alive - Full Nature Documentary

Every day, one remarkable bird performs thousands of "operations" to keep an entire forest alive. 🌲 Deep inside an ancient forest, an extraordinary doctor is hard at work. Armed with a beak that strikes up to 10,000 times a day, the black woodpecker performs life-saving operations on sick trees, removing destructive parasites before they can spread. Every peck helps protect one of nature's most complex ecosystems. But being the forest's doctor isn't his only job. As he searches for a mate and carves out a nesting home, an unexpected battle begins. The cavities he creates quickly become prized real estate, attracting squirrels, martens, owls, doves and countless other animals. Without even trying, the black woodpecker becomes one of the forest's most important architects, creating homes th