Gila woodpeckers are very fast and do not have a lot of predators. However, they cannot escape hawks and other raptors, who do eat them.
Gila woodpeckers mainly eat insects but will also eat cactus fruits, mistletoe berries and other sensasonal fruits.
Hawks, kites, falcons,bobcats,mountain lions,coyotes,wolves, & foxes to name a few...
That is a woodpecker that lives in the desert southwest and makes its home in cactus
it eats by pecking
A Gila Monster is a carnivore- which means it eats only meat- or other animals
The gila woodpecker is neither extinct nor endangered. A common species.
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Found in the family Melanerpes.
One role that the Gila woodpecker [Melanerpes uropygialis] plays for the saguaro cactus [Carnegiea gigantea] is as pollinator. It's one of the major predators of the saguaro's large, edible, dark plum like fruits. In eating the fruit, it eliminates the seeds by which the saguaro naturally reproduces.Another role is as predator. In a way, it doesn't matter how many saguaro fruits that that woodpecker eats. What's important is the elimination of the digested seeds. It's a natural way of insuring perpetuation of the saguaro species.But the woodpecker affects another of the cactus' body parts other than the fruit. The woodpecker is known to drill holes into the stem, for nest building. The drilling and the nesting can be a problem, depending upon the extent of the damage.
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snakes,accipiters,coatis,raccoons.
A woodpecker eats insects and is therefore a carnivore.
It's the golden fronted woodpecker. A woodpecker of the genus Melanerpes, related to red headed, red bellied and gila woodpeckers.
A lot of things will have had to have gone extinct before something like the redheaded woodpecker will disappear.
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