Woodpeckers
Members of this family are chiefly known for the characteristic behaviour that lent them their common name. Their pecking serves mostly to aid their forage for insect prey in the trunks and branches of trees, and also communication which they achieve by drumming trees with their beaks, producing a reverberatory sound that can be heard at some distance. Some species vary their diet with fruits, birds' eggs, small animals, tree sap, human scraps, and carrion. They usually nest and roost in holes that they excavate in tree trunks, and their abandoned holes are of importance to other cavity-nesting birds. They sometimes come into conflict with humans when they make holes in buildings or feed on fruit crops, but perform a useful service by their removal of insect pests on trees. Source: Wikipedia.
The species of woodpecker shown on this page are the red-bellied woodpecker, red-headed woodpecker, and Pileated woodpecker. Northern flickers - another specie of the woodpecker family is shown on another page.
Red-bellied woodpecker 6716. A red-bellied woodpecker about to fly off with a gecko.
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Pileated woodpecker 2329. A Pileated woodpecker with its piano keyboard wings in full flight.
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Red-headed woodpeckers 3629. A pair of red-headed woodpecker flying together. A rare sight captured on camera.
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