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Woodpeckers Inflict Costly Damage Upon Power Poles : Utilities ...  May 16, 1994 ... For some residents, the sound of a woodpecker rat-a-tatting into a tree is a mere annoyance. ... Woodpeckers Inflict Costly Damage Upon Power Poles : Utilities: Edison officials complain that the birds can dramatically carve ... said he is appalled by the damage on some poles he sees in wilderness areas.
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Red-headed Woodpecker - Birdzilla.com  Bent Life History for Red-headed Woodpecker. ... sitting on telegraph poles, fence posts, the dead tops of tall trees, or on dead stubs. ... In the prairie regions and in other places, where trees are scarce and these woodpeckers are common, some .... Last spring in opening a good many birds of this species with the object of...
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Golden-fronted Woodpecker - Birdzilla.com  I took a set of six eggs from a cavity in a live mesquite tree, the opening ... and it reminded me also of our more familiar redheaded woodpecker. ... I have never known this species to drum on a dead limb, as most of the other woodpeckers do. ... Because of the damage the birds wrought to telephone and telegraph poles, the...
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Woodpeckers and the management of woodpecker damage  Red-headed woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus and downy ... to cling easily to the trunks and branches of trees, wood siding, or utility poles while pecking. ... Some species, such as the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) and the ... Wounds cause a grade defect called bird peck that lowers the value of hardwoods.
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[Upper figures, yellow-bellied sapsuckers; lower left, red-naped ...  Damage to telephone and telegraph poles. 10 .... Red-headed woodpecker. 97. 44. ... as trees are important to woodpeckers, so are these birds important to trees. .... This service by no means exonerates those species properly called ..... tried spraying with carbolic acid in places where their holes were just begun, but so.
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Homes without hands. Being a description of the habitations of ...  The FIELD CRICKET, and its Tunnels-Structure of the Ovipositor-The .... and quarrelsome nature -The LYRE BIRD-Origin of its name-Its domed nest-The ...... and honeycomb the ground to such an extent that it is rendered quite unsafe for horses. ..... an animal which looks very like a mole, though it belongs to the rodents.
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Are Rings of Holes in Tree Bark Made by Downy Woodpeckers?  attributed rings of holes in apple trees to the resident Willow Woodpeckers (Dryo- ... Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, as they called it, was a sapsucker and made ... Woodpeckers." Mr. Forbush does not give the "Birds of. Massachusetts" .... chickadees and Downy Woodpeckers, take advantage of this food supply and drink.
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Ivory-billed woodpecker - Wikipedia  The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is one of the largest woodpeckers in the .... The bird uses its enormous white bill to hammer, wedge, and peel the bark off dead trees to find the insects. ... The ivory-billed woodpecker was listed as an endangered species on 11 March 1967, though the only evidence of...
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Mowing Late - An Idea for the Birds | The Outside Story  Jul 18, 2011 ... However, when a magnetic field was applied in the planetarium at the same strength as the earth's ... sparrow, sedge wren, and upland sandpiper, and the threatened meadow lark, grasshopper sparrow, and savannah sparrow, all benefit from favorable management of grassy fields. ... Join the discussion.
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Birds - Endangered And Threatened U.s. Species - Habitat ...  Categories of birds found on the list of endangered and threatened species are described ... The red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) is shown in Figure 9.1. ... Hawaiian goose, Branta (=nesochen) sandvicensis, E, 9/24/2004, RD(1) .... to ensure that the endangered status listing is still appropriate for the species.
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Bird Lore v17 1915 - Audubon  the other birds away; though the first two species mentioned found boxes in ..... fawn-color and bright brown crowded out the dow^ny gray of his first days. ...... 27; Purple Finch, 3; Goldfinch, 34; Snow Bunting, 55; Ipswich Sparrow, 12; Tree Spar ...... that the tail and the head and neck together, as well as certain wing-motions.
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HBW 7 - Foreword on extinct birds by Errol Fuller | Lynx Edicions  Others become extinct in much more dramatic style. ... Another great difficulty that surrounds extinct birds concerns the definition of a species. .... bird species (around 1200 species) are at risk of extinction during the next 100 years. ..... a relative of the Mauritian Red Rail during his two-year sojourn on the island of Rodrigues:.
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Mammal Pests - UC Agriculture and Natural Resources  Wild rodents can be reservoir hosts of diseases transmissible to humans, ... Tree crop damage may occasionally be caused by native wood rats. ...... Proc.14th. Vertebrate Pest Conf. (L.R. Davis and R.E. Marsh, Eds.) Published at .... freshly clipped vegetation, and scattered or small piles of 1/2 inch long ...... Don't pile bait.
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swift | bird | Britannica.com  Any of about 75 species of agile, fast-flying birds of the family Apodidae (sometimes ... They fly with relatively stiff, slow wingbeats (four to eight per second), but the ... the surface of a palm leaf, which may be hanging vertically or even upside down. ... in South America, nesting in such recesses as chimneys and hollow trees;...
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Kakapo - Wikipedia  The kakapo Strigops habroptilus (Gray, 1845), also called owl parrot, is a species of large, ... Conservation efforts began in the 1890s, but they were not very successful .... As in other flightless birds and some other flighted parrots, the furcula is not .... Bowls are often created next to rock faces, banks, or tree trunks to help...
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Red-cockaded woodpecker Picoides borealis - Center for Biological ...  The red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) was once a common bird, ... By the time of its listing as an endangered species in 1979, the red-cockaded .... 2004. Red-cockaded woodpecker recovery: an integrated strategy. In: Costa...
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Talk:Rock dove - Wikipedia  Raptor predation of sports bird[edit]. The article claims "Peregrine Falcons and Eurasian .... This is more stuff than one normally sees, even if one deals with a dove-cote; .... Unfortunately, their descent unto the urban landscape has led the naturally ..... That's not talking about what are regarded as ferals hanging around the...
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Test Your Knowledge : Extension : Clemson University : South ...  Yes, these holes are the result of sapsucker damage. When this kind of damage is seen on a tree trunk or branch, homeowners often suspect that insect borers are the culprits. ... With borer damage, there may be only one hole, rarely more than a few holes, and the ... Sapsuckers are members of the woodpecker family.
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Bye Bye Birdie  Bird Management Strategies for Small Fruit  Jun 22, 2007 ... Damage to commercial berry crops by birds during these years may be a ... Three types of bird ... Smaller birds may puncture fruit, leaving them open to infection by .... devices, and protection/development of predator habitat. .... Sharp-shinned hawks surprise and capture all their prey from cover or while...
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Red-winged Blackbird | Audubon Field Guide  They are notably bold, and several will often attack a larger bird, such as a hawk or crow, ... The red shoulder patches of the male, hidden under body feathers much of the time, ... Family, Blackbirds and Orioles ... Lives of North American Birds...
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Journey North Hummingbirds - Annenberg Learner  These special woodpeckers tap little holes in a circle around the trunk or a ... Sapsucker holes are an important food source for at least 35 species of birds. ... One migrating sapsucker drilled 286 tiny holes in a pine tree in 9 1/2 hours one April ... Sapsuckers only drill holes during the spring and summer while sap is running.