20 Know the facts of Woodpecker Lifestyle and Varieties

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A Woodpeckers is known for pecking holes in a tree bark and it does it to find insects to eat. Woodpeckers live in forests and spend their lives in the trees. Woodpecker is around 180 species or types.

Woodpeckers are worldwide, but are abundant is Southeast Asia and South America, but for New Guinea and Australia. Most woodpeckers spend lives in trees, spiral up in search of insects. A few ground-feeding forms also perch on horizontal branches. Else, most woodpeckers feed on berries and fruits or in some seasons feed on sap from certain trees.

Woodpecker’s prepares for winter by finding a dead tree and makes holes for the acorns. Each hole is small, prohibiting the other large birds from stealing the acorn. Besides keeping the hole narrow has it advantage that the nut breaks. By the summer end, the work of the woodpecker ends. It is the time the acrons ripe. A large tree trunk holds around 50,000 acorns, ensuring a satisfying winter for the bird.

Woodpeckers, in spring give loud calls; it is augmented occasionally on metal or mostly by drumming on hollow wood. They are the male’s sounds having territories and if not in other seasons, they are silent. Mostly, woodpeckers travel in pairs or prefer solitary.

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A few woodpecker species

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• The acorn woodpecker is 20 cm long (8 inches). It stores it supply in the tree barks by drilling it as winter food. The woodpeckers are in the deciduous woodlands of western North America south to Colombia. There are redheaded woodpeckers in the same size as an acorn woodpecker, but is distributed sparsely in farmland, open woodlands, and orchards of North America to the Rocky Mountains east.
• Downy woodpecker is a species well known and does 15 cm long, inhabit in the woodlands. However, the hairy woodpecker is 20-25cm long; these two species are in temperate North America. While, spotted woodpecker is about 23 cm long and is found in Eurasia western temperate South to North Africa.
• Black woodpecker is 46 cm long found in beech and coniferous woodlands of Eurasia, while in temperate North America the pileated woodpecker is 40-47cm in size, inhabiting the mature forests.
• Woodpeckers 3-toed are in two species. The three-toe northern woodpecker ranges across subarctic Northern Hemisphere and in some south mountains, while the three-toe black backed is across central Canada, the forested region.
• The crimson-backed woodpecker is from India to Philippine Islands in open woodlands. The green woodpecker is throughout the temperate Eurasia to Africa south to north. The red-bellied woodpecker is in the U.S, southeaster deciduous forests.
• Ivory-billed woodpecker is 45cm long and is found in the Southern U.S. and Cuba, while a Cuban ivory-billed woodpecker, a subspecies, and the imperial woodpecker of Mexico is in the endangered list. All these birds need isolation and large trees.

Sphyrapicus

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Sapsucker is found in North America and Picidae family woodpeckers are noted for drilling holes in neat close rows through the trees bark and obtains sap and insects. They catch insects in midair.

The yellow-bellied sapsucker is about 20 cm long. It breeds in northern regions (south in mountains) and migrates to the West Indies and Central America; the red-naped and breasted races are to the west of the Rocky Mountains.

Roman mythology

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Picus, is a woodpecker in Roman mythology, sacred to the god Mars. It was worshipped widely in ancient Italy. Picus was an agricultural deity connected with the soil fertilization with manure. The woodpecker was in augury.

Wryneck

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Wryneck is from the subfamily Jynginae from the woodpecker family (Picidae). Wrynecks are gray-brown birds. This species twist their necks snakily when alarmed. The eat insects from trees or flick up ants using long tongues and nest in old woodpecker holes. Wryneck is 16 cm long, breeds in the tropics during winters and other times is from England to Japan.

List Of Woodpecker Species

Serial No	Common Name	Binomial name
01	Guadeloupe woodpecker	Melanerpes herminieri
02	Red-throated wryneck	Jynx ruficollis
03	Eurasian wryneck	Jynx torquilla
04	Bar breasted piculet	Picumnus aurifrons
05	Black dotted piculet	Picumnus nigropunctatus
06	Arrowhead piculet	Picumnus minutissimus
07	Varzea piculet	Picumnus varzeae
08	Red headed woodpecker	Melanerpes erythrocephalus
09	Golden Naped woodpecker	Melanerpes chrysauchen
10	White Fronted woodpecker	Melanerpes cactorum
11	Golden Cheeked woodpecker	Melanerpes chrysogenys
12	Yucatan woodpecker	Melanerpes pygmaeus
13	West Indian woodpecker	Melanerpes superciliaris
14	Cuban green woodpecker	Xiphidiopicus percussus
15	Buff spotted woodpecker	Pardipicus nivosus
16	Brown eared woodpecker	Pardipicus caroli
17	Bennett’s woodpecker	Campethera bennettii
18	Golden-tailed woodpecker	Campethera abingoni
19	Mombasa Woodpecker	Campethera mombassica
20	Little green Woodpecker	Campethera maculosa
21	Little spotted woodpecker	Campethera cailliautii
22	Tullberg’s woodpecker	Campethera tullbergi
23	Brown capped pygmy woodpecker	Yungipicus nanus
24	Grey capped pygmy woodpecker	Yungipicus canicapillus
25	Sulu pygmy woodpecker	Yungipicus ramsayi
26	American three-toed woodpecker	Picoides dorsalis
27	Black backed woodpecker	Picoides arcticus
28	Arabian woodpecker	Dendrocoptes dorae
29	Little grey woodpecker	Dendropicos elachus
30	Cardinal woodpecker	Dendropicos fuscescens
31	Gabon woodpecker	Dendropicos gabonensis
32	Melancholy woodpecker	Dendropicos lugubris
33	Eastern grey woodpecker	Dendropicos spodocephalus
33	Olive woodpecker	Dendropicos griseocephalus
34	Crimson Breasted woodpecker	Dryobates cathpharius
33	Little woodpecker	Veniliornis passerinus
34	Checkered woodpecker	Veniliornis mixtus
35	Striped woodpecker	Veniliornis lignarius
36	Yellow-vented woodpecker	Veniliornis dignus
37	Arizona woodpecker	Leuconotopicus arizonae
38	Hairy woodpecker	Leuconotopicus villosus
39	White headed woodpecker	Leuconotopicus albolarvatus
40	Fulvous breasted woodpecker	Dendrocopos macei
41	Freckle breasted woodpecker	Dendrocopos analis
42	Darjeeling woodpecker	Dendrocopos darjellensis
43	Himalayan woodpecker	Dendrocopos himalayensis
44	Sind woodpecker	Dendrocopos assimilis
45	White-winged woodpecker	Dendrocopos leucopterus
46	Great spotted woodpecker	Dendrocopos major
47	Okinawa woodpecker	Dendrocopos noguchii

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Engineer Birds Woodpecker Amazing Nest Building

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