When a woodpecker pecks, it is usually searching for insects that
are living in the bark of the tree. When a woodpecker pecks, it may be searching for food, it may be
digging out a nest, or it may be drumming out a “song” to its mate.
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Most kinds of woodpeckers are our good friends. They eat
insects that harm trees. Using its strong, sharp bill, the woodpecker digs out insects that
are living in the cracks in the bark of trees.
In the springtime a woodpecker calls to its mat by drumming out a
tattoo on a dry limb or the roof of a house with its strong bill.
Woodpeckers make holes in the trunks of trees for their nests.
They leave chips of wood on the bottom to cushion the white eggs.
The California woodpecker stores acorns in holes that it
drills. The woodpecker is not storing the acorns to eat. A small
worm has bored into each acorn. Later, the woodpecker will return to
feast on the fattened worms.
Only a few woodpeckers sometimes harm trees. The unwelcomed ones are the sapsuckers. As their name
indicates, the drill rows of holes in the bark of trees and drink the sap as it
drips from the holes. - Dick Rogers
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