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Is That A Crazy Woodpecker Trying To Eat Your House?

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Short answer: The woodpecker is most likely not crazy and noshing on the house is not what the woodpecker has in mind. Woodpeckers could be pecking on homes for a variety of reasons, all of which can drive a non birder a bit batty. So, why do woodpeckers peck on human made structures?

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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

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A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. Related to starlings, like woodpeckers they move over large mammals feeding on ticks, but also on their hosts’ blood. Sniffing us. A flock of Red-billed Oxpeckers is flying above.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. shocked everyone with a suggestion that passerines were most closely related not to woodpeckers and kingfishers but to parrots, falcons, and seriemas. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. titled Avian relationships – What do we know?

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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Now we were in Finca Tres Equis, a family cocoa farm (if I understood well, it translates as Triple X Farm) and a private reserve of over 300 hectares, of which more than 70 percent is a forest, representing part of a Jaguar corridor. I came with 957, and started to collect my birds like an Acorn Woodpecker collects its nuts.

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Bird Renaming Week Wrap Up

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Joshua, another guest writer, gave us a dialogue about a particularly poorly-named woodpecker. Tom, really raising the discourse of the blog, decided that we need to rename boobies. Carrie came up with a genius way to both rename pretty much everything and raise money for conservation. And then the week ended! Well, no more!

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Backyard Beneficiaries

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Thankfully, they now have a home here where they can court, build their nest, and raise their young. This pair of Lineated Woodpeckers loves the termite-ridden branches of my neighbor’s avocado tree. Each year, I alert him to the arrival of our guest of honor – a female Yellow Warbler. I hope you choose our place!

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Urban Birding in Costa Rica

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The raising of the bins took place along roads through semi-shaded coffee farms and on the grounds of Villa San Ignacio , a hotel with big old wonderful trees and regenerating forest. Hoffmann’s Woodpecker. Some members of this family always do well with people and Costa Rica is no exception. Blackbirds.