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	Woodpecker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woodpeckers gained their English name because of the habit of some species of tapping and pecking noisily on tree trunks with their beaks.
		Cavities created by woodpeckers are also reused as nests by other birds, such as some ducks and owls, and mammals, such as tree squirrels.
		The term "Peckerwood", an inversion of "Woodpecker", is used as a pejorative term in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodpecker (460 words)

	Woodpecker
		The Woodpeckers and wrynecks in the order Piciformes have zygodactyl or “yoked" feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backward.
		This is both a means of communication to signal possession of territory to their rivals, and a method of echo-locating grubs under the bark of the tree.
		Two distinctive groups of small woodpeckers, the wrynecks, genus Jynx, and the piculets, genera Picumnus, Sasia and Nesoctites, have their own group articles.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wo/Woodpecker.html (158 words)

	23. Myths and Legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Just as linguistic change in the Andamans seems to have been very slow, so was change to the content of their legends.
		The creeks so characteristic of Greater Andaman are also said to have been made at that time: Tomo had harpooned a large fish which in its frantic efforts to escape hit the land repeatedly with its snout and caused the indentations that turned into useful creeks.
		According to the archaeological evidence, the pig was introduced to the Andamans relatively late from the outside, probably shortly before 2,200 or so years ago and perhaps together with pottery and possibly even by the same mysterious visitors.
	www.andaman.org /BOOK/chapter23/text23.htm (4598 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		The majority of woodpeckers are specialists in climbing tree trunks and in excavating their own nest-holes in trunks and branches.
		Yet, all things considered, it is probably the ability of woodpeckers to bore their own nest-holes in trees (and other plants) and their drumming (though not all woodpeckers drum) that really sets then apart.
		Woodpeckers can be regarded as successful birds with the over 200 species being fairly well distributed around the globe though, perhaps not surprisingly, they do not inhabit the treeless regions of the Arctic and Antarctic.
	www.fatbirder.com /species_and_families/non_passerines/picidae.html (1123 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Andaman Islands, India
		The Nicobars are south of the Andamans, and host a further five endemics plus they share four of the Andaman endemics.
		As the Andamans are the same time zone as mainland India far to the west, sunrise is at 5AM and sunset at 6PM, so we arrived too late for any birding this day.
		Others have reported Andaman Cuckoo-dove and Andaman Treepie near the bottom - we did not see these birds, although we had a received a report of fly-by Andaman Cuckoo-doves in the late afternoon at the top of Mt Harriet.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/india/India20-Andaman/andaman-mar-04.htm (1614 words)

	South Andaman 20th February-6th March 2002
		The Andaman were used as a dumping ground for Bangladeshi and Sri Lanka refugees and with the law allowing squatters rights to reclaimed forest land the effect has been disastrous for the environment.
		The best place for Andaman Cuckoo Dove is supposed to be the path up from the aqueduct, which crosses the road at Panighat.
		Andaman Woodpecker, Stork-billed Kingfisher, Collared Kingfisher, Chestnut-headed Bee-eater, Brown Coucal, Vernal Hanging Parrot, Alexandrine Parakeet, Red-breasted Parakeet, Long-tailed Parakeet, Brown-backed Needletail, Watercock, Beach Thick-knee, Black-naped Tern, my only sighting of pale Crested Serpent Eagle from the ferry, Besra, Mangrove Whistler (heard), (a probable White-breasted Woodswallow), Large Cuckooshrike.
	www.princeton.edu /~vivekt/trips/Andaman-02.htm (5621 words)

	Picidae (Woodpeckers, Piculets, & Wrynecks)
		Woodpeckers are small, medium and medium-large sized, for the most part, arboreal birds, generally recognizable by their physiology and habits.
		Typically, woodpeckers have chisel-like bills that are used primarily for excavating nest and roost holes in trees and other suitable plant material.
		Woodpeckers feed primarily on but not limited to: ants, beetle species, spiders, moths, grasshoppers, crickets, and larvae.
	www.nashvillezoo.org /piciformes/picidae.htm (3268 words)

	Search: Andaman - FOX News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Andaman Island is the part of India the estimated landscape more than 8000 km.
		Andaman Sea, is one of the world's most renowned islands, it offers spectacular scenery and many attractions.
		Andaman Construction Inc. is committed to meeting all contractual obligations in a...
	search.foxnews.com /_1_23IHT5C02FCY5E8__info.foxnws/search/web/Andaman (540 words)

	www.shortwing.co.uk
		Our first endemics came in the shape of a fast-moving flock of Andaman Treepies (the only ones seen on the trip), the soon to be familiar Andaman Drongo, big fl Andaman Woodpeckers excavating a roadside nest cavity, and Glossy Swiftlets zipped overhead while the trees were noisy with Alexandrine, Red-breasted and Long-tailed Parakeets.
		Andaman Crake Rallina canningi (H): The closest we got to this near-mythical bird, was a groaning response from a dense thicket at dusk, in response to playback.
		Andaman Serpent Eagle Spilornis elgini: We started with an electrocuted corpse, then had bad flight view at Mt Harriet, slowly increasing the quality of our views with two or three birds at Chiriyatappu, until the final look was at a bird sat in a sunlit dead tree, calling loudly.
	www.shortwing.co.uk /pages/tripDetails.asp?id=56 (9682 words)

	Untitled Document
		Every change ripples across the Andamans, magnifying the tsunami's effect as it spreads through the isolated, heavily forested islands and their far-flung tribal villages.
		The Andamans - a treasure house of biodiversity, with hundreds of varieties of birds and trees, endangered turtles and coral reefs - are far from the world's major tourist trails.
		The forests are home to birds like the redheaded Andaman fl woodpecker, whose drumming on tree trunks can be heard for a mile, and the megapod, or "thermometer bird," which warms its eggs with heat generated by decomposing leaves.
	www.treff-raum-espaciotime.com /en/articles/tsunami.htm (1250 words)

	Surfbirds Birding Trip Report: Andaman Islands 12th - 15th November 2004
		The Andaman and Nicobar islands hold a total of 17 endemics.
		That leaves 11 endemics on the Andamans which are all achievable plus several other distinctive races which may probe to be separate species including Oriental Scops Owl, Sunda Teal and a pale form of Crested Serpent Eagle.
		The calls of this and the preceding species seemed to me to be counter-intuitive given that Andaman Scops sounds similar to Oriental Scops elsewhere in Asia and Oriental Scops on the Andamans is similar to Collared Scops elsewhere in Asia.
	www.surfbirds.com /trip_report.php?id=601 (1629 words)

	Island birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Andaman and Nicobar islands are the proverbial paradise for birdwatchers.
		Within minutes, a woodpecker with a white-barred fl mantle and red crown landed on the same tree.
		For a birder, the sight of this bird announcing the arrival of a new day is a consummation devoutly to be wished for.
	www.and.nic.in /birds/island-birds.htm (649 words)

	The Hindu : Magazine / Environment : Island birds
		The 324 islands of the Andaman-Nicobar archipelago are the tops of the submerged mountain chain, a continuation of the Arakan Yomas of Myanmar.
		After the 1857 rising, the British government turned its attention to Andaman Islands to explore the possibility of setting up a penal colony.
		After taxonomist Humayun Abdulali of the Bombay Natural History Society carried out a series of surverys in the 1980s and published his observations, ornithologists realised the unrivalled nature of the birds in the islands.
	www.hindu.com /mag/2005/10/02/stories/2005100200390400.htm (677 words)

	Myth, Ritual And Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang eBook by BookRags
		The Andaman Islanders dwell at a very considerable distance from Australia and from the Iroquois, and, in the present condition of the natives of Australia and Andaman, neither could possibly visit the other.
		The frog in the Andaman version is called a toad, and he came to swallow the waters in the following way: One day a woodpecker was eating honey high up in the boughs of a tree.
		“Now, pull!” Then the woodpecker raised the toad slowly to the level of the bough where the honey was, and presently let him down with a run, not only disappointing the poor toad, but shaking him severely.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/2832/44.html (448 words)

	Endemic birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Endemic birds of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
		The following is a list of species endemic to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands:
		This page was last modified 06:05, 31 July 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Endemic_birds_of_the_Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands (124 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Andaman Islands rain forests (IM0101)
		Located between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, between India to the west and Myanmar to the east, the Andaman Islands are affiliated with both countries in important ways.
		If you set sail from the west coast of Myanmar to the Andaman Islands, you would find this ecoregion’s rain forests to be similar to the ones you left behind, if only slightly less rich in diversity.
		These relatively isolated forests are home to eight species of endemic birds, most of which take the name of the archipelago--including the Andaman woodpecker, Andaman drongo, Andaman treepie, Andaman cuckoo-dove, Andaman wood pigeon, Andaman serpent-eagle, and Andaman scops owl.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0101.html (349 words)

	Birdfinders - Birdwatching Holidays - South India and the Andaman Islands
		The Andaman and Nicobar group comprises over 300 isolated islands, many of which are uninhabited and covered in pristine rainforest with mangrove-lined waterways, formed by a submarine mountain range in the Bay of Bengal.
		As a result of their relative proximity to Myanmar, the avifauna of the islands is somewhat different to that of the rest of India.
		With the Nicobar Islands remaining off-limits to foreign tourists, and Narcondam Island in the Andaman chain – home to the endemic Narcondam Hornbill – proving difficult to access, it is the remaining 11 of these endemics on the island of South Andaman that our itinerary will focus on.
	www.birdfinders.co.uk /tours/south-india.htm (1758 words)

	AVIFAUNA - Picchio verde . . . l'altro web site - Birds: DNA Sibley's list, 5 (Non Passeriformes)
		The northern populations formerly were treated as a separate species, P. arizonae (Arizona Woodpecker), but intermediate populations occur in c Mexico.
		Lowlands to 1500 m on Pacific slope in e Panama and from Colombia e through Venezuela to Guianas and s, e of Andes, through e Ecuador and e Peru to n,e Bolivia and w,c Amazonian Brazil.
		Andaman Is. Often included in javensis, but may be viewed as an allospecies.
	digilander.libero.it /avifauna/classificazione/classification5.htm (5181 words)

	Woodpecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It frees woman from the common diseases frequently suffered such as delayed and irregular menstruations, back-aches and stomach-aches along menstruation and even to tighten stomach muscles and uterus muscles.
		This is both a means of communication to signal possession of territory to their rivals, and a method of echo-locating grubss under the bark of the tree.
		The last two families are sometimes separated as the order Galbuliformes.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/w/wo/woodpecker.html (297 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- On the Andaman Islands, life and geography are rewritten by the tsunami
		On the Andaman Islands, life and geography are rewritten by the tsunami
		Witness the changes to Robert's world: The tsunami washed in saltwater that devastated the soil that the coconut trees depended on – trees that have been a central part of life for the indigenous people here for generations.
		The Andamans – a treasure house of biodiversity, with hundreds of varieties of birds and trees, endangered turtles and coral reefs – are far from the world's major tourist trails.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050115-1014-india-tsunami-woundedislands.html (1279 words)

	South India
		The park is situated in the lowlands at the foot of the Nilgiris.
		Among species we may encounter are Yellow-footed Green Pigeon, the endemic Blue-faced Malkoha, Crested Treeswift, Blue-bearded Bee-eater, White-naped and Streak-throated Woodpeckers, Black-rumped and Common Flamebacks, Black-hooded Oriole, Gold-fronted Leafbird, endemic Grey-headed and White-browed Bulbuls, Tawny-bellied Babbler, Red-breasted and Tickell’s Blue Flycatchers, Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch and Plain Flowerpecker.
		Much of the land surface of the Andamans is still covered in pristine forest and we are concentrating on this rich habitat during our stay.
	www.birdwatchingbreaks.com /southindia.htm (1388 words)

	picidae
		In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is both a complete natural history of one of the most exciting and rare—perhaps even extinct—birds in the world, and a fascinating personal quest by the world's leading expert on the species.
		Scientific management practices could restore the woodpecker's habitat and population, but the imperative to convert old-growth forests to other uses remains.
		In this book, three of the leading experts on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker offer a comprehensive overview of all that is currently known about its biology and natural history and about the ecology of the fire-maintained forests it requires for survival.
	www.oiseaux.net /liste/birds.picidae.html (1259 words)

	North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News
		PORT BLAIR, India -- Someday, perhaps, he'll be able to rebuild his house, and take his family back to the island that they fled.
		Witness the changes to Robert's world: The tsunami washed in saltwater that devastated the soil that the coconut trees depended on -- trees that have been a central part of life for the indigenous people here for generations.
		The Andamans -- a treasure house of biodiversity, with hundreds of varieties of birds and trees, endangered turtles and coral reefs -- are far from the world's major tourist trails.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/01/17/special_reports/science_technology/16_48_421_15_05.txt (1270 words)

	Tsunami alters life on islands - The Washington Times: World Briefings - January 22, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		PORT BLAIR, India — Someday, perhaps, he will be able to rebuild his house, and take his family back to the island they fled.
		Robert's world: The tsunami washed in saltwater that devastated the soil that the coconut trees depended on — trees that have been a central part of life among indigenous people here for generations.
		Spend some time along the once-pristine beaches, many now littered with debris, or in the thick tropical forests, with dense canopies and near impassable undergrowth, and it's easy to see why people love these islands.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20050121-095221-3042r.htm (1214 words)

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		This is indeed a rarity, and one I certainly enjoyed, as the grounds were birdy too, with Orange-breasted Green Pigeons and Yellow-fronted Woodpeckers, and plenty of Green Imperial Pigeons and Purple Sunbirds.
		And there were, of course, lots of birds - woodpeckers (6 different species on one morning), barbets, hornbills, plenty of Gray Junglefowl, the males sporting tail plumes of radiant purple-blue.
		We were up and out of our rooms in the cool of early morning, back for brunch and mid-day siesta time, and out again in the late afternoons, making the most of the active times of day for the birds and critters.
	www.cyrilan.com (5226 words)

	Andaman Woodpecker (Dryocopus hodgei) - BirdLife species factsheet
		Summary Dryocopus hodgei is endemic to the Andaman islands, India, where it is a common resident in large trees of evergreen forest.
		Although forest remains fairly extensive on the Andamans, the human population on larger islands is rising rapidly and habitat is consequently under pressure from agriculture, grazing and logging.
		Given the small range of this species, habitat loss and population trends should be monitored.
	www.birdlife.org /datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=707&m=0 (276 words)

	sindia
		We’ll also be offering an exciting optional excursion to the sun-drenched, tropical paradise that are the Andaman Islands, an archipelago closer to Myanmar than the Indian mainland and home to some further 19 endemics.
		Up to 12 species of woodpecker can be found here and Mudumalai is also our best site for Indian Pitta.
		We’ll spend time searching for some of the archipelago’s night birds – the scops-owl, the two hawk-owls and the nightjar and a wealth of waders and migrants can also be expected.
	www.sunbirdtours.co.uk /sindia.htm (1589 words)

	South India Tour, 2005
		Winter is the prime time to visit southern India as the intense heat of the other three seasons is moderated, it is the dryer season, and there are more birds to be seen because of the presence of Palearctic migrants.
		Our tour ranges from the beautiful lowland forests of Goa, to the submontane rain forests and montane forests of the Western Ghats of S.W. India, the thorn scrub of Tamil Nadu, and the tropical rain forests of the Andaman Islands.
		The ANDAMAN ISLANDS (25-29 January) have been mostly closed to foreigners, but recently limited access to the southern part of South Andaman Island has been permitted.
	www.kingbirdtours.com /itineraries/sindia05it.html (2155 words)

	Grand Southern India, Birding Tours & Trips - birding tours, birding cruises - Victor Emanuel Nature Tours
		We will also explore remnant patches of bird-rich montane forest among little-known sholas hidden in the folds of these granite mountains, as well as vast areas of semiarid woodland.
		A special treat on this tour is the inclusion of a visit to the remote Andaman Islands.
		In 2004 we had cracking looks at Andaman Scops and Andaman Hawk owls, Andaman Wood-Pigeon, Andaman Woodpecker, Andaman Treepie, and White-headed Starling, to mention just a few.
	www.ventbird.com /tour/246?kblib=4735b5e72c9ff710df061488a6eded9c (618 words)

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