Stats

Lifespan: 10-16 yrs
Size: Medium
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Colony
Biome: Temperate woodland
Range: North America
Movement: Climbing
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Flight
Status: Common

About

The Acorn Woodpecker is a communal bird of western oak woodlands, famous for drilling thousands of perfectly-fitted holes into "granary trees" to hoard acorns — a single tree can hold over 50,000 stored nuts defended by the whole flock.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
2.
hatchling
A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Melanerpes
Species: Melanerpes formicivorus