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[Editor’s note: This is the second half of a two-part story on the habits and habitat of the Red-bellied Woodpecker. The first part appeared last week.]
Like all woodpeckers, the Red-bellied Woodpecker is perfectly equipped for a vertical life; there are no horizontals for this bird. They have stiff tail feathers that serve as props as the birds hitch themselves up on a tree trunk.
Birds have four toes that are usually arranged with three in front, one behind. This is a good, all-purpose arrangement for hopping or walking on the ground and perching horizontally on a branch.
Woodpeckers have their toes arranged as two in front, two behind. Zygotactyl is the term in ornithological language. It’s an impressive word. This toe formation is helpful to birds that cling vertically to tree trunks.
Most of the food of all woodpeckers consists of insects in varying forms of development dug out of trees by the useful, chisel-shaped bill. It is now known that a woodpecker’s hearing is so acute and finely tuned that it can actually hear the insect
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