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Old May 8th, 2004, 03:39 AM
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Smile BIRD LISTINGS And Woodpeckers

TRY THIS FOR FINDING BIRDS AND INFORMATION

http://montereybay.com/creagrus/list.html
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Woodpeckers are typically the only insect eating birds that can remain in interior Alaska in the winter. They are highly specialized birds with hard, straight, chisel-like bills and a long slender tongue tipped with a horny spear. Woodpeckers use their bill to drill holes in the bark of sick or dead trees just large enough so their tongue can reach in and impale insect larvae hiding inside. When not in use, the woodpecker's tongue, which is anchored at the base of the bill, actually wraps itself around the back of the skull between the skull and the skin and waits to be used the next time.

WOODPECKERSPicidae

Species in family 214

I have 8 different woodpeckers visiting here right now. They love seed blocks and insects.
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