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The lack of calm placidity keeps me at a distance from a teeming ant nest; it has the opposite effect on a hungry flicker.
In a study of the stomach contents of flickers, one researcher counted 3,000 ants. What kind of patience and skill did it take to count that many partially digested ants?
Other than the flicker’s appetite for ants, he is like other members of the woodpecker family in the stiff tail feathers that he uses as a prop on tree trunks. He also possesses a remarkable skull, thick but spongy, that can absorb the shocks of vigorous pecking on tree trunks; this
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