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Acorn woodpecker
Melanerpes formicivorus
33.3346, -118.333
Field Notes
Description:
This woodpecker spent a lot of time at the top of this tree. I could not see exactly what it was doing, but it was working in something with its beak.
Lower down the tree was a nest hole.
Habitat:
Outskirts of Avalon, near hills covered with oak trees and shrubby growth.
Notes:
The Acorn Woodpecker stores nuts in individually drilled holes in trees called granaries. The acorns are jammed in so tight that even squirrels can’t pry them out. Some of these granary trees have up to 50,000 holes drilled by extended woodpecker families.
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Acorn Woodpecker
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJune 13, 2013
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