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White-headed Woodpecker

Leuconotopicus albolarvatus

The White-headed Woodpecker is a striking bird with a white head and black body. It loves to peck on trees to find yummy insects and make its home in the forest.

Lebensraum: Forests

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The White-headed Woodpecker has a striking appearance with an entirely black body contrasting sharply with its pure white head. Males also boast a distinctive red patch on the back of their neck. White wing patches are visible during flight.

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White-headed Woodpecker

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

These birds prefer to live in tall, fire-scorched pine forests in the mountains.

They often get sticky pine pitch on their white faces from digging into cones for food.

This woodpecker loves pine seeds so much, it hardly pecks for insects like other woodpeckers!

Young White-headed Woodpeckers sport a cool red cap on their heads that disappears with age.

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Pine Seed Seeker

White-headed Woodpecker has a strong, wedge-tipped beak to extract nutritious pine seeds directly from tight cones.

Fähigkeit

Tree Climber

White-headed Woodpecker has stiff tail feathers that act like a prop, helping them brace securely against tree trunks while climbing.

Fähigkeit

Sticky Tongue

White-headed Woodpecker can extend a long, barbed tongue covered in sticky saliva to snatch hidden insects from bark crevices.

Maße und Details

Länge
21-25 cm
Flügelspannweite
43-48 cm
Gewicht
0.05-0.07 kg
Lebenserwartung
4-9 Jahre
Top Speed
45 km/h
Gelegegröße
3-7
Brutzeit
11-14 Tage

Ernährung und Fütterung

They munch on tasty pine seeds and dig out hidden insects from tree bark and wood.

Hauptnahrung

  • Pine seeds
  • Bark beetles
  • Ant pupae
  • Conifer scale insects
  • Sap

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

depends on

Ponderosa Pine

Pinus ponderosa

for seeds, nesting cavities, and insect prey found in its bark.

hunts

Mountain Pine Beetle

Dendroctonus ponderosae

as a primary food source, extracting them from beneath pine bark.

eaten by

Northern Goshawk

Accipiter gentilis

as a potential avian predator in its forested habitat.

shelters

Northern Flying Squirrel

Glaucomys sabrinus

by using abandoned woodpecker cavities for nesting and roosting.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Always watch birds from a distance and don't try to touch them.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das länge von White-headed Woodpecker?

21-25 cm

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von White-headed Woodpecker?

43-48 cm

Was ist der/die/das gewicht von White-headed Woodpecker?

0.05-0.07 kg

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von White-headed Woodpecker?

4-9 Jahre

Was ist der/die/das top Speed von White-headed Woodpecker?

45 km/h

Was frisst White-headed Woodpecker?

They munch on tasty pine seeds and dig out hidden insects from tree bark and wood.

Wo findet man White-headed Woodpecker normalerweise?

Forests

Wie jagt White-headed Woodpecker?

Foraging

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