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Woodpeckers Facts, Amazing Animals Woodpeckers Facts, Woodpeckers Facts Amazing Fact Woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks all possess zygodactyl feet (a bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward). This foot arrangement is good for grasping the limbs and trunks of trees. The tails of all woodpeckers except piculets and wrynecks are stiffened as the bird perches on vertical surfaces, tail and feet work together to support.
Woodpeckers play important role in keeping trees healthy as their diet consists mainly of insects and their grubs taken from living and dead trees, and other arthropods, along with fruit from live trees, nuts and sap both from live trees. All this drilling and tapping adds up to about 12,000 pecks a day.
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Why do they peck ??????
Woodpeckers peck at trees to disturb the little insects that live in the bark. They then gobble them up. These birds can also use their strong, pointed beaks to hammer at the tree until they have made a hole big enough for a nest. 

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fantasy in practicality said…
very helpful animal to big long tress eating up the insects to save the lives of the full grown trees. good post.
May 20, 2011 at 7:11 AM
Techmaker said…
Good info, I would like to learn about birds, but no time to allocate for it. I'll try to learn it later.

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May 20, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Abhisek said…
Good info Geeta...I like birds :D
May 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Geeta Singh said…
Thanks Sancheeta yup, they r eco frndly:)
Thanks Techmaker :)
Thanks Abhishek :)
May 20, 2011 at 11:16 PM
Mohini Puranik said…
"Woodpeckers peck at trees to disturb the little insects that live in the bark. They then gobble them up."

This is really something very interesting and different!
May 21, 2011 at 8:13 AM
Geeta Singh said…
Thanks Mohinee :) thats really amazing!!
May 29, 2011 at 10:01 PM
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