In general they have a clear white back and belly. Their wings are black and barred with white while the tail feathers are spotted with black. They have a black eye line and crown, and the have a short, stubby beak.
Males have a small red patch on the back of their head while the red patch is absent on females.
Hmm... That's some question you got there! It can probably be either yellow, blue, or even a type of green. If you want to learn it the hard way, go on! Catch a woodpecker and buy sheets of paper! WITHOUT ME! Sorry there. I sometimes get carried away!
Variosu game birds like hawks and owls, and small animals like weasels. Squirrels might eat a woodpecker's eggs, but not an adult bird.
Just peck it to get to the insects inside the wood.
Because of the way that their bills and skulls have evolved over the years, plus because their brains are packed so tightly into their skulls so as to not allow the brain to bounce against the skull, to cause any harm.
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Not all woodpeckers obtain their food from trees, some feed on the ground, but they do need trees for nesting.
So the removal of trees from areas where woodpeckers live would be a factor leading to their extinction.
Another factor would be the overuse of insecticides as has already happened in the reduction of numbers of some species of birds.
No Woodpeckers don't hibernate. No bird does. Birds either adapt to the envoroment or migrate. Woodpeckers migrate.
They do not eat trees, they eat insects, but if they find an insect in the bark of a dogwood tree they will eat it.
The endangered woodpeckers are the red cockaded and ivory billed. Protection of old growth forest is essential for their survival. The red headed woodpecker is listed as near threatened, but there has been some resurgence, such as the sandhill region of the coastal plain of North and South Carolina, where the bird is still fairly common.
The redheaded woodpecker's favorite nesting place is inside dead trees. They favor areas of burned or flooded forests. Red-headed Woodpeckers, on the 2006 Red List of Threatened Species, are driven off their home range by European Starlings, telephone poles being treated with cresote, and the removal of dead trees. We can help protect them by leaving dead limbs and underbrush for the birds to nest in.
Most do not. The sapsucker species retreat southwards in winter, but most woodpeckers are non migratory.
The longest living woodpecker is said to have lived 13 months. Woodpeckers protect themselves from predators by hiding or by making alarm calls.
The imperial woodpecker of Mexico may be extinct, as it has not been seen for decades.
If you get a look at the front of one you will see that his belly is reddish,not as red as the area on his head, but they already had a red headed woodpecker.
Tapping on wood is how woodpeckers locate grubs and insects inside the wood. They will do this to just about any exposed wood. If they start boring into the wood after insects, you definitely have insects. Woodpeckers might also peck at the wood if they decide to bore out a nesting cavity.
To answer this question is unfair cos all animals are important to the earth cos if one species dies out then others will increase causing over population and others will die out to extinction.so all animals are impoetant
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she's holdin the greevin for hundred odd years
we all keep believin
that history repeats itself year after year.
how fears that the future is worse
we have to give in to a hundred year curse
sweatin the sun like we're diggin a grave
dig deep enogh and our fortune is saved
(chorus)
if only if only the woodpecker sighs
the bark on the trees was as soft as the sky
as the wolf waits below hungy and lonely
he cries to the moo-oo-oon if only if only
chasin the sky our beautiful wife
you make mistakes and it's my back that breaks
and forever my prosteals my life
to submission I'm beat but there's hope beneath these feet
blisters and blood and the sun makes you blind
you don't let it eat ya it can't help but be kind
cause you know what's important with your back to the wall
you can break metal chains and your friends don't let you fall
if only if only the woodpecker sighs
the bark on the trees was as soft as the sky
as the wolf waits below hungry and lonely
he cries to the moo-oo-oon If only if only
I'm a sun but I found myself a plant
there's no use when I'm fighten my history fightin my history
i have no place I'm a light feather there's no use when I'm fighten my history fighten my history
I have no place I'm more like a feather but i can't fly away when I'm fighten myself
if only if only the woodpecker sighs
the bark on the trees was as soft as the sky
as the wolf waits below hungy and lonely
he cries to the moo-oo-oon if only if only
if only if only the woodpecker sighs
the bark on the trees was as soft as the sky
as the wolf waits below hungy and lonely
he cries to the moo-oo-oon if only if only
Woodpeckers peck for two reasons, to find food, or to signal that "this is my turf". So either the bird thinks there are some nice grubs in your doorstep, or he's discovered that it makes a usefully loud noise.