The Woodpeckers

The flicker often telegraphs his love by tapping either on a forest tree or on some loose board of a barn or outhouse; but he has other ways of courting his lady. On fine spring...

We will discuss later whether it is sap that he wishes: all that now concerns us is to note that the internal difference, whatever it is, is in favor of the tree that is dying;...

Something interesting yet remains to be discovered of the hoarding habit of the red-head. How strange that so familiar a bird should have a habit so easily detected, and yet tha...

This may seem a roundabout way to show that a woodpecker's foot is a pair of nippers. First we studied nippers till we found out that they were not good nippers unless they were...

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These questions are answered by studying the bones of the tongue, for without bones it could not be guided as swiftly and surely as it is. Indeed, all tongues have bones in them...

4. DRYOBATES BOREALIS, _Red-cockaded Woodpecker_. Upper parts black _barred_ with white, under parts dingy white; sides streaked and spotted with black; wings spotted with white...