What is the acorn woodpecker?
The Acorn Woodpecker is a bird between 8 to 9 1/2 inch long (20 to 24 cm), which is known for the accumulation of acorns to eat later. In fact, it is known that the stomach woodpecker packs the acorns so firmly in the holes that the squirrels are unable to remove the seeds. These woodpeckers usually store their acorns in many holes in one single tree. Acorn is located in southern Oregon, California, New Mexico, Arizona and Western Texas.
These taxes have a significant appearance that is often described as a "clown". The males of the acorns are wooden are mostly black and white and the red crowns meet with white "foreheads" and black feathers surrounding the piercing white eyes. Females look quite similar, with the exception of women who have black stripes separating white from red feathers.
Acorn Woodpecker prefers to live in oak forests, whether trees are placed in suburbs or less densely populated areas. These birds also like one Douglas or pine. Acorn Woodpeckers also pounding holes to PLOtters and poles.
ACORNS is not the only food that consumes the acorn. In fact, stomachs can store acorns so that birds have something to eat when other food sources are not available. In addition to the acorns that Acorn's date enjoys, there are almonds, sap, walnuts, ants and flying insects.
Another feature of Woodpecker Acorn is the social arrangement of the bird. Acorn's other Acorn lives in groups of up to seven breeding men and up to three breeding women who cooperate on the protection of their acorn stash. These shelters are referred to as "granaries".
The Woodpeckers man's acorns are connected to one of the female birds in his group. Eggs that men and women keep warm for 11 to 14 days before hatching. Woodpeckers have remained with the family group several years before leaving.
as a group or "bushel" as a group acorn is called villains, stomachsThey are quite noisy. Some compare some of the sounds that Acorn Woodpecker makes for those created by the Woody The Woodpecker when the sliding holes in the old cartoon were produced by Walter Lanz (1899-1994). In fact, this cartoon was based on Acorn Woodpecker.