Woodpeckers : drilling holes and bagging bugs

Collard, Sneed B., author, photographer.

Book 2018

If you see a bird standing on the side of a tree banging its beak against the trunk, chances are you're watching a woodpecker. Woodpeckers not only dazzle us with their good looks and personality, they exhibit some of the most interesting behaviors in the animal world. Explore this dynamic, exciting group of birds with award-winning children's science writer Sneed B. Collard III. Discover what scientists have learned about woodpeckers, why woodpe...

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ISBN:

9780984446094

Description:

48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

What's a woodp-p-p-p-ecker?
It's a peck-peck-pecking machine
Eating like you mean it
Birds with cavities
woodpecker real estate
Would you like that tree soft, medium, or hard?
Woodpeckers abroad
Heavy metal drumming
woodpecker communication
Woodpecker families
Sapsuckers
slurping sap and taking names
Lewis's woodpeckers
eating on the fly
Black-backed woodpeckers
burning down the house
Gila woodpeckers
showing some spine
Vanishing woodpeckers
Lost treasures? Ivory billed and imperial woodpeckers
Speaking
and acting
up for woodpeckers

LCCN:

2017918354

Control Number:

2524051

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