The Acorn Woodpecker
Drills holes in dead trees and plugs them with an acorn!
Acorn Woodpeckers are larder hoarders. Breeding groups gather acorns and create a granary by drilling holes in a dead tree, or a dead branch on a live tree, and stuffing acorns into them.
The acorns are visible, and the group defends the tree against potential cache robbers.
The acorns represent a significant part of their diet; they also eat insects, picking them off tree bark or catching them in flight, and in addition fruit, seeds and sometimes tree sap.
Ain't nature facinating....
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By netchicken:
posted on 5-4-2007 Acorn Woodpeckers are larder hoarders. Breeding groups gather acorns and create a granary by drilling holes in a dead tree, or a dead branch on a live tree, and stuffing acorns into them.
The acorns are visible, and the group defends the tree against potential cache robbers.
The acorns represent a significant part of their diet; they also eat insects, picking them off tree bark or catching them in flight, and in addition fruit, seeds and sometimes tree sap.
Ain't nature facinating....
See a picture and more on the Acorn woodpecker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Pic from here