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WOODPECKERS
Bird    -      Vertebrate    -     Omnivore

DOWNY WOODPECKER (Male)

GREEN WOODPECKER

​WOODPECKERS
There are more than 180 species of woodpeckers - but none of them is found in Australia, Madagascar or New Zealand

• Eat insects, seeds, berries, nuts, acorns, fruit and the sap of trees. 
• Drill holes in the bark and wood of trees in search of insects.
• Can walk vertically up a tree trunk.
• Woodpeckers peck at about 20 times per second.
• Woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice.
• The tongue is extremely long and some have barbed tongues to help them extract bugs from trees and holes.
• Do not get headaches from pecking as their skulls are structured to spread the impact and their brains are cushioned for protection.
• Mate for life.

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