Woodpecker
(Picidae)
Woodpeckers are Small to medium birds, gaining most of their food by climbing tree-trunks and branches. Nest bored in a hole in a tree, usually by both birds, and often in fairly firm wood, Similar holes may be made outside breeding season for roosting.A new hole is normally made each year.Woodpecker Eggs very smooth, white and rounded, but may become stained in damp nest cavities.Woodpecker Cavities are unlined and nestlings have a hard rough pad on the back of the leg joint, and rest and move on the whole tarsus when in the nest. On small young there is a sensitive swollen lump at the base of the lower mandible,on either side, and the adults Woodpecker touch this to induce the young to beg for food,The young Woodpecker are mainly fed on regurgitated food. They often keep up a harsh noise which may betray the nests.
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