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siimes great quantities of ants, their favorite food. The sticky tongue is probed deep within > an ant nest. Ants attack the intruding tongue, stick to it and ride it in great numbers back into the bird's mouth.
Recently a friend remarked on a curious behavior of a female Red-bellied Woodpecker: the bird clung to the trunk of a tree and pressed the side of its head against the bark for several minutes. "What was the bird doing?" I was asked. My answer: "Listening for insects."
It is now known that wood' peckers can hear an insect as it moves about deep in the trunk of a tree. With this astonishing hearing ability, a bird knows where to drill a hole. For many years it was incorrectly assumed that woodpeckers drilled into trees at random, hoping for a meal at the end of his work. If that were true, woodpeckers would have starved long ago.
Woodpeckers of many species drill holes into the sides of houses and, in some cases, cause considerable damage. The current belief is that the birds mistake some household appliance - an electric clock, for instance - as an insect and go after it for food.
Woodpeckers do not have elaborate songs such as that of a Cardinal or Song Sparrow. Most vocalizations are sharp, quick and distinct such as the sharp keer of a Flicker or the dry rattle of a Downy Woodpecker. Rhythmic tapping or drumming is used as a form of communication in courtship and to proclaim territorial rights.
On occasion, reports surface of a woodpecker that has discovered that drumming on metal - a gutter or drain pipe - makes a splendid sound and carries great distances. Female woodpeckers perceive this with pleasure, but residents of the
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