This is the moment a stubborn black woodpecker trashes a wildlife camera trap by repeatedly pecking at its lens in Russia.

The footage, captured at the State Sayano-Shushenski Nature Reserve in the West Sayan Mountains of Siberia, shows the funny face of the bird vigorously tapping on the camera with its beak on September 2.

The bird periodically stops and looks into the lens as if checking whether its destruction plan is working.

Nature reserve officials said: 'Feathered vandal! The bird was banging its beak on the camera equipment so hard that the equipment couldn't withstand it, but it managed to record footage of numerous attacks from the woodpecker.

'The black woodpecker had registered on camera traps before, but it didn't show much interest in them and didn't bang its beak on them.

'This time, the black woodpecker broke two camera traps at once, which were installed on trees not far from each other on the same trail.'

Senior researcher Roman Afanasyev added: 'The bird was banging on the equipment and disabled the motion sensors.

'It's hard to say what attracted the woodpecker to these two devices.

'These were two cameras from different manufacturers.

'The black woodpecker, Dryocopus martius, is the largest of nature woodpeckers, slightly smaller in size than a crow.'