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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> is a medium-sized, fl and white clown-faced <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>bird</a> with a red crown, glossy fl and white head, white eyes, and white rump and wing patches. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> prefers pine-oak woodlands where <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> trees are plentiful. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> is often considered a pest by nut and fruit farmers when the <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>bird</a> feeds on their crops.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.sbceo.k12.ca.us /~mcssb/sbpanda/acornwoodpecker.html</font> (666 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> (Melanerpes formicivorus) is a medium-sized <b>woodpecker</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>acorns</b> are visible, and the group defends the tree against potential cache robbers. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>acorns</b> represent a significant part of their diet; they also eat insects, picking them off tree bark or catching them in flight, and in addition fruit, seeds and sometimes tree sap.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acorn_Woodpecker</font> (253 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b>: This <b>woodpecker</b> is resident from southern Oregon south through California, and in Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b>: Four or five white eggs are laid in a hole in a tree. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b>: The White-headed <b>Woodpecker</b> is similar, but lacks white rump and has an entirely white face and crown, and a fl belly.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/175/target.aspx</font> (594 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://bss.sfsu.edu/holzman/courses/Fall01%20projects/AcornW.htm">bioegog template</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>acorns</b> must be rotated and repositioned because the <b>acorns</b>, and the holes that they have drilled, will expand and contract from temperature and moisture fluctuations. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> An <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b> will often perch at the tops of trees while flycatching in order to catch and insect in mid flight, otherwise it will forage in or near the canopy of the trees. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> is a year-round resident in its habitat (Husak 2001).</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>bss.sfsu.edu /holzman/courses/Fall01%20projects/AcornW.htm</font> (1943 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.prbo.org/calpif/htmldocs/species/oak/acwoacct.html">ACORN WOODPECKER CONSERVATION PLAN</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Nest type: The <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b> is a cavity nester, with nests generally in the same tree that serves as the main storage tree, or granary. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorns</b> play an important role in the ecology of the <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b> due to the fact that they provide a steady energy supply for the <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a> in the winter, allowing them to remain nonmigratory. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Bock and Bock (1974) found that the northern limits of the <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b> in southwestern Arizona were determined by the diversity of <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oaks</a> present and not the limits of the Quercus genus in general.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.prbo.org /calpif/htmldocs/species/oak/acwoacct.html</font> (1980 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.exzooberance.com/virtual%20zoo/they%20fly/woodpecker/woodpecker.htm">Woodpecker at exZOOberance!</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Woodpecker</b>, common name for any of a family of more than 200 species of <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a> known for their ability to cling to the trunks of trees and dig holes in the wood with their beaks. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Woodpeckers</b> generally nest in holes cut into the trunks of trees or even into giant cacti, the female depositing several shiny, white eggs in a soft bed of rotted chips at the bottom of the cavity. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The imperial <b>woodpecker</b> is classified as Campephilus imperialis, the ivory-billed <b>woodpecker</b> as Campephilus principalis, and the pileated <b>woodpecker</b> as Dryocopus pileatus.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Find Acorn Woodpecker Information</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)</i></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> is a medium-sized, fl and white clown-faced <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>bird</a> with a red crown, glossy... </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> is a medium-sized, fl and white <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>bird</a> with a red crown... </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The thump, thump of the <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b> chiseling holes for nesting and food storage is a familiar sound in the Sacramento region.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Woodpeckers</b> have a sharp, straight, chisel-shaped bill and a long, extensive tongue with a hard, spear-shaped tip. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The tail is stiffened, with the shafts of the feathers terminating in hard spines, which the <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a> press against a vertical surface to help support their weight. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b>, found from Oregon to Colombia, is remarkable for its habit of drilling a series of holes in tree trunks in which to store <b>acorns</b> for future use.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.balliston.net /acorn.htm</font> (217 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Acorn_Woodpecker.html">All About Birds</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The clown-faced <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> is a common <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>bird</a> of western <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> forests. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorns</b> typically are stored in holes drilled into a single tree, called a granary tree. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Woodpeckers</b> put 220 kg (485 lb) of <b>acorns</b> into a wooden water tank in Arizona.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> And, while <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpeckers</b> actively defend <b>acorn</b> caches from raiding squirrels, jays, titmice, etc., (which also store <b>acorns</b>) they are at risk to predation. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> reproduction is highly dependent on the size of the <b>acorn</b> crop. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Recent studies indicate that annual fluctuations in <b>woodpecker</b> numbers relate to the diversity of <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oaks</a> in an area rather than to the number of acorn-producing trees.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> If the <b>acorn</b> crop was poor and synchronous both among individuals of the same species and across species over a large geographic area, there would be few <b>acorns</b> anywhere nearby and the <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a> might have to travel a very long distance before finding an area where there were enough <b>acorns</b> to survive. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Because <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b>, like other <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a> and mammals that eat <b>acorns</b>, tend not to be picky about which species they use, this means that the probability of a total crop failure in a locality is low, despite the large geographic synchrony exhibited by individual species. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Most strikingly, the range of <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b> generally is restricted to sites containing two or more species of <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oaks</a>, presumably because the probability of total crop failures in areas with only a single species of <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> is too high to maintain populations over the long term.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As its name suggests, the <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> (Melanerpes formicivorus) is restricted to <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> and pine-oak woodlands. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpeckers</b> occur in inland valleys of western Oregon, south in California west of the Sierras and deserts to Baja. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Amazingly, the tongue of <b>woodpeckers</b> start in the nostril and wrap around the top of the skull and back through the throat by means of a tongue bone.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> is found from northwestern Oregon, California, the American Southwest, and western Mexico through the Central American highlands and into the northern Andes of Colombia. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Usually, <b>acorns</b> are removed singly from trees, but the <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>bird</a> may also break off a twig holding up to three <b>acorns</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Studies have shown that these granaries are so important that they are one of the main reasons why <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b> live in such large families, at least in California.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> A female <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> comes out of a nest hole in a dead snag, a large, whitish oval egg in its bill. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> But with <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpeckers</b>, sons and daughters stay for at least one year and sometimes even remain on their parents' territory for life. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> If a daughter <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> remains with its family group, it does not become a breeding member of the group until its father dies.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> from US BLM Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon/Washington, Medford District File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Species See List of Quercus species The term <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>ACORN</b>, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the largest community organization of low and moderate-income families in the United States.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b> use the same storage trees over and over, year after year. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In the fall, when the <b>acorns</b> begin to ripen and fall from the trees, the holes in the granary trees are once again filled by these busy <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b> will also peck holes in the wooden siding of buildings to use as granaries.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Natal dispersal in the cooperatively breeding <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Demographic consequences of incest avoidance in the cooperatively breeding <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Woodpeckers</b> are often a "core species" of the woodland avifauna [except in two major areas that don't have any <b>woodpeckers</b>: Australasia and Madagascar]. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> I call <b>woodpeckers</b> "core species" because their presence is a fundamental requirement to the existence of a wide range of other <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Woodpeckers</b> drill new nest holes each year, and thus many old nest cavities are available for a entire suite of hole-nesting species.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpeckers</b> get their name from their habit of drilling small holes in trees (and telephone poles) into which they hammer <b>acorns</b> so tightly that even squirrels can't extract them! </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpeckers</b> breed in loose colonies of up to 16 <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a>, and their presence is usually announced by a variety of loud, raucous "WAKE-UP WAKE-UP WAKE-UP" calls. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> An <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> family forms a close social unit of related individuals that share in all of the duties of incubating and feeding the young in a communal nest.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Red-bellied <b>Woodpecker</b> (Melanerpes carolinus) · cached · Illustration of male and female, range map, sound file, and description of physical traits. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Red-headed <b>Woodpecker</b> (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) · cached · Features a photo of this <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>bird</a> and provides data on its range, habitat, and diet. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> (Melanerpes formicivorus) · cached · Photo, range map, physical description, habitat, and nesting of this species.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> A common and often conspicuous year around resident of the <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> woodlands and mixed evergreen forests of the Ventana, the <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b> is easy to recognize and fun to observe. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b> are the most social of all North American <b>woodpeckers</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Their food hoarding habit allows <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b> to maintain year around residency, rather than to be forced to seasonally migrate to follow food supplies.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b> is found in the western half of Oregon and California, and in Arizona, New Mexico and down throughout Mexico. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b> nests in a cavity that they excavate themselves, usually in an old dead branch (snag) of pine or <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b> prefers to use pine trees for granaries and for nest cavities, as its wood is quite a bit softer than <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>Oak</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> is a <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>bird</a> of the American west. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpeckers</b> gather <b>acorns</b> from <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> trees and store them in granaries (one is pictured on the right). </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It is apparently still unclear whether the <b>acorns</b> are stored for themselves, or because they act as homes for beetle larvae that the <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a> eat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Intragroup dynamics of a cooperative breeder: an analysis of repoductive roles in the <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpecker</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Koenig, W. <b>Acorn</b> storage by <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b> in an <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> woodland: an energetics analysis. </td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> --The <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> (Balanosphyra formicivora) has been considered a resident in California only in that part of the state lying west of the Sierra Nevada where <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> trees are present. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> On June 4, 1959, we observed an <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpecker</b> near a stand of fl <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oaks</a> (Quercus kel- logg//) about 5 miles southeast of Janesville, Lassen County, California, along highway 395. </td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Woodpeckers</b> are small, medium and medium-large sized, for the most part, arboreal <a href="/topics/Bird" title="Bird" class=fl>birds</a>, generally recognizable by their physiology and habits. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Typically, <b>woodpeckers</b> have chisel-like bills that are used primarily for excavating nest and roost holes in trees and other suitable plant material. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Woodpeckers</b> feed primarily on but not limited to: ants, beetle species, spiders, moths, grasshoppers, crickets, and larvae.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> These caches are defended against Western Scrub-Jays and other groups of <b>Acorn</b> <b>Woodpeckers</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> White-headed <b>Woodpeckers</b> feed on insects and on pine and other conifer seeds. </td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Noisy and always busy, <b>acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b> are common residents of <a href="/topics/Oak" title="Oak" class=fl>oak</a> and oak-pine woodlands everywhere from southern Oregon to South America. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The holes are tightly packed with <b>acorns</b> or other hard nuts that the <b>woodpeckers</b> store to dine on in winter. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Acorn</b> <b>woodpeckers</b> have a social life so unusal that John Humphrey Noyes might have been studying them before he invented complex marriage and the Oneida community.</td></tr>
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