Jays always initiated flock movement and, unlike other woodpeckers, flickers almost always followed the jay flocks when they moved. |
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In late fall, there are red-shafted flickers, hairy woodpeckers, finches, chickadees, nuthatches, and, of course, jays. |
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Several species of woodpeckers and owls also inhabit the gallery forests during the entire year. |
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Chickadees, crossbills, goldfinches, nuthatches, siskins, and woodpeckers pick the winged seeds out of pine and spruce cones. |
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In Massachusetts winter residents include chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers, titmice, cardinals, and mockingbirds. |
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Of course, we still have our year-round chickadees, titmice, cardinals, woodpeckers, mourning doves and song sparrows. |
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On the lake itself, we mainly saw the same woodpeckers, gulls, goldfinch, robins, waxwings, juncos, and other common birds spotted last year. |
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We cannot recall ever having such large families of cardinals, downy and hairy woodpeckers, English sparrows, blue jays, titmice and chickadees. |
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We'll look for giant woodpeckers, albatrosses, steamer ducks, guanacos, sea otters and red and gray foxes. |
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Squirrels, snowshoe hares, grouse, corvids, woodpeckers, and other medium to large songbirds are all potential prey of the goshawk. |
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There are, as I write, three or four thousand aroused woodpeckers hammering away at my property. |
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Magpies, Canada jays, chickadees, woodpeckers, and so many other birds can be seen and heard throughout the Wilderness. |
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Many of the more northern birds, including three-toed woodpeckers and Canada jays, are found in the area. |
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An important wildlife habitat in Richmond Park, home to woodpeckers and stag beetles, was damaged by fire last Wednesday morning. |
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There are bearded woodpeckers, yellow-breasted apalis, brubrus, and paradise flycatchers. |
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The big birds with their striking red crests and black stripes across their white faces are the largest woodpeckers in North America. |
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Great-spotted woodpeckers drum while chiffchaffs, blackcaps, chaffinches and wrens sing their hearts out. |
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Centuries-old valley oaks are pockmarked with holes made by acorn woodpeckers, who stash acorns by the thousands in the bark. |
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We saw woodpeckers, a remote airplane in flight, and a peacock with its tail feathers fanned! |
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From sungrebes, herons and kingfishers on the river to oropendolas, woodpeckers and orioles in the orchard. |
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Areas of range overlap between pairs and among neighboring woodpeckers were measured. |
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers. |
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In fall you'll see Northern flickers, herons, kingfishers, downy woodpeckers, and lots of ducks. |
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Birds sang more clearly now, and woodpeckers pecked with more zest than they had heard the night before. |
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Birds that cling to and climb the sides of trees, like woodpeckers and nuthatches, have strongly curved claws. |
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We also saw the usual variety of gulls, raptors, woodpeckers, and passerines throughout the morning. |
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For example, ground birds can usually only walk horizontally on the ground whereas woodpeckers climb up and down vertically on tree trunks. |
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Carolina wrens, tufted titmice, and red-bellied woodpeckers are other relative newcomers to our area. |
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Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning. |
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The reserve is home to woodpeckers, chaffinches, bullfinches and blackbirds. |
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The soldierly looking red-headed woodpeckers, in their striking black, red, and white uniform, were much in evidence. |
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Wouldn't it be worth it just to go to see tons and tons of pileated woodpeckers, sapsuckers, red-headed woodpeckers? |
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One of the most strongly migratory woodpeckers, the Red-naped Sapsucker travels as far south as central Mexico for the winter. |
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We did not move the feeder until it had been visited by both nuthatches and by at least two titmice and two woodpeckers. |
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Unlike most other woodpeckers, Northern Flickers are principally ground feeders, though they also forage on tree trunks and limbs. |
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This has been confirmed experimentally in some woodpeckers, wrens, fairywrens and warblers. |
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All other birds, from loons and penguins to woodpeckers and sparrows, are placed together in the third main lineage, the Neoaves. |
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He hid near nests of black woodpeckers, kingfishers, northern hazel hens and Eurasian sparrow hawks. |
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Brown Creepers spend most of their time on main trunks or major limbs, bracing themselves with their tails like miniature woodpeckers. |
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During the winter male and female green woodpeckers live separately but stay in the nesting area all year round. |
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There was also lots of other great wildlife to see in the area around Malham Cove including nesting little owls, green woodpeckers and redstarts. |
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Down in the canyon, I often see the house wren, acorn and Nuttall's woodpeckers, wrentit, and, in winter, the yellow-rumped warbler. |
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However, only terrestrial species have been tested, such as barn swallows, tree swallows, dunnocks, alpine accentors, and acorn woodpeckers. |
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The feet of most woodpeckers are large and zygodactylous, meaning two toes point forward and two backward on each foot. |
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Primitive primates called lemurs fill the ecological roles of woodpeckers, squirrels and monkeys. |
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Birds present include the bulbuls, babblers, barbets, kingfishers, shamas, drongos, pigeons, woodpeckers and tailorbirds. |
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Female plants produce berries that sustain birds including cedar waxwings, finches, mockingbirds, thrushes, and woodpeckers. |
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Once inside the forest we walked several trails spotting hornbills, woodpeckers and malkohas to name a few. |
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If you want to lure woodpeckers, hummingbirds, or orioles to your yard, invest in specialized feeders. |
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Grouse, thrushes, waxwings, and woodpeckers enjoy the clusters of scarlet fall berries, which remain on the tree all winter if not eaten. |
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The mountain is inhabited by various wild birds such as black grouses, owls, woodpeckers, and hazel grouses. |
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Mexico is home to toucans, vultures, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, parrots, macaws, and quetzals. |
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Successful woodland species in the region, include chiffchaffs, great spotted woodpeckers and goldcrests. |
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The woodpeckers peel large chunks of bark off of dead trees while foraging for insects. |
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Bears were gone from East Texas, as were wild turkeys, ivory-billed woodpeckers, jaguars, Carolina parakeets and red wolves. |
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Unlike most woodpeckers, flickers spend a lot of time on the ground probing for ants. |
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Moreover, the number of transitions as a function of transversions appears linear over the range of nucleotide divergences represented by woodpeckers and the piculet. |
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Use suet or specialty suet cakes with added berries or peanuts to attract woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice, Carolina wrens and wintering warblers. |
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Mr Deacon says that far from damaging wildlife, the lake and wetlands already attract kingfishers, mallards, woodpeckers, coots, waterhens, curlews, plovers, deer and foxes. |
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Such avian predators as European jays and great-spotted woodpeckers cannot open the nest-boxes at the study area, whereas martens easily enter nest-boxes by removing the top. |
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There were few birds to be seen on this trip, although in the past we have sighted woodpeckers among the trees and water ouzels flying in and out of the mountain stream. |
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks. |
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The fruits are red, blue, or black and are quickly consumed in late summer and early fall by finches, game birds, mockingbirds, thrushes, waxwings, and woodpeckers. |
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There were more stretches through wilderness and spotting shoals of fish, cormorants, cranes, owls, spoonbills, kingfishers, woodpeckers, and a few snakes. |
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In this corner, dressed in 80-foot pines and graced by six species of woodpeckers, red-shouldered hawks, blue-winged vireos and 76 other species of birds, is Mother Nature. |
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The woodpeckers gain access to the nest either by enlarging the box entrance or by drilling through the side of the box on a level with the contents. |
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During the dry season, and beginning of the rainy, they form pairs and fly in small groups that may nest together in old woodpeckers holes or large termitaries. |
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In the woods, a variety of large and small animals and birds are attracted to red maple, including deer, elk, screech owls, moose and pileated woodpeckers. |
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Although their diet includes some acorns and beechnuts in the fall, pileated woodpeckers eat mostly ants, flying insects, grubs, and some seeds and fruits. |
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Not only is the Cape flush with cardinals, towhees, mockingbirds, catbirds, goldfinches and woodpeckers, its birds of the shore entice many a visitor here. |
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Some of those species include bluebirds, robins, titmice, chickadees, nuthatches, wrens, tree and barn swallows, purple martins, owls, flycatchers, and woodpeckers. |
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Most folks start with a feeder or two and quickly find themselves engrossed with the resident sparrows, finches, and woodpeckers that eagerly accept the offerings. |
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While we don't have tall trees, our neighbors do, and the firs and oaks that surround our property drop acorns and provide homes for jays, woodpeckers, robins and sparrows. |
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Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits. |
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Birds are quite prevalent with nighthawks, woodpeckers, Canada jays, belted kingfishers, western tanagers and oregon junkos being the most common. |
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The Gunflint Trail bird feeders are still enjoying heavy use, being frequented most often by Canada jays, hairy and downy woodpeckers, and black-capped and boreal chickadees. |
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The curlew and oystercatcher are back and the great spotted woodpeckers have chosen the oldest telegraph poles in the village for best quality drumming sounds. |
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If you have an old, dead tree in your garden, woodpeckers, nuthatches, and chickadees may seek out your yard to look for food and build their houses. |
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These woodpeckers have also regularly attacked colonies of nesting house martins by clinging to the side of the inverted mud dome and chipping away a hold. |
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The avian family Picidae includes the woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks. |
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A green tree and snag retention strategy focuses on protecting large snags that may be used by species such as Vaux's swift, pileated woodpeckers, and myotis bats. |
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My earliest diary records watching great spotted woodpeckers displaying. |
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Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost. |
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Karoo korhaans, ground woodpeckers and spotted dikkops are commonly seen. |
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I listened to great spotted woodpeckers drumming on the trunks of trees. |
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The seeds are commonly eaten by birds, such as grouse, crossbills, jays, nuthatches, siskins, woodpeckers, and by squirrels. |
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Back on the path, three pileated woodpeckers, each a foot and a half tall, flash across the trail just a few yards away. |
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Three species of woodpeckers, two species of weak excavators, and five species of non-excavators were documented nesting on study plots. |
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Native bluebells, lesser-spotted woodpeckers, scarlet tiger moths and spotted flycatchers dwell there too. |
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Birds regularly observed at local feeders include chickadees, goldfinches, tufted titmouse, juncoes, northern cardinals, and various woodpeckers. |
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If you have wood siding, check for damaged areas or other openings that provide homes for woodpeckers, carpenter ants and other damaging pests. |
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Scientists have figured out how woodpeckers can rat-a-tat-tat a tree 12,000 times a day at speeds up to 7 meters per second without a headache. |
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Many woodpeckers have the habit of tapping noisily on tree trunks with their beaks. |
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Their trunks were gnarled beyond belief, like those in fairybooks. They were covered with the cuneiform of woodpeckers and yellowhammers. |
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Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes. |
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Threatened and sensitive species known to exist in the headwaters include rare plants, red-legged frogs and pileated woodpeckers. |
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Above Sam's head, almost out of the picture, is a cavity that had an active family of nesting pileated woodpeckers. |
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The reserve is open to the public and contains a number of bird hides, from which native owls and woodpeckers may be viewed. |
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Broadhead Clough Nature Reserve is home to cuckoos and woodpeckers as well as beautiful plants including marsh violets and wood sorrel. |
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To confirm this, you can search the Internet for pictures of hollows created by pileated woodpeckers to see if they match. |
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The meadow also attracts a mass of wild birds such as spotted-flycatchers, mistle thrush, song thrush and both great spotted and green woodpeckers. |
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As the landscape slowly greens, birds such as whip-poor-will, woodpeckers, ruffed grouse and American woodcock will all benefit from the new landscape. |
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He enjoys seeing pileated woodpeckers outside his office window and quadrennially prognosticating about the summer Olympics using nothing more than economics. |
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The broad-leafed areas provide homes for woodpeckers, nuthatches, whitethroats and jays while the rare heath-land areas are ideal for the nightjar, woodlarks and buzzards. |
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Nothing too rare so far, but great spotted woodpeckers, wheatears, grasshopper warbler and redstarts at the weekend indicate local and long-distance movements. |
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Nature walks with the resident naturalist go through the middle of the island, turning up snakes, monitor lizards, woodpeckers, kingfishers and hornbills. |
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Besides well-known species like blackbirds and robins, your garden may also play host to more unusual species such as blackcaps, reed buntings, woodpeckers and yellowhammers. |
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