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ter they provide as well as eat the pine seeds and sap.
Lots of woodpeckers enjoy the sugar water found in hummingbird feeders. If they are feeding at your hummingbird feeder, enjoy thenfe If you want to offer this treat, make sure your choice of hummingbird feeder has large ports to accommodate their beaks. Plant a berry or fruit producing bush or tree such as dogwood, mountain ash, strawberry, cherry, grapes, bayberry, holly, blueberries, apples, mulberry, and elderberries.Several
readers expressed an interest in Dryocopus pileatus, which is the Pileated Woodpecker. Those interested in providing nest boxes in hopes of hosting this particular woodpecker should make their house floor size 8x8 inches. The box height should be 16-24 inches with a 3 x 4-inch entrance hole that is 12-20 inches above the floor. Mounting the house 15-25 feet high is recommended.
Mount woodpecker houses around your yard. Not all birds will use a nesting cavity, but those that will do have preferences for the dimensions of the box and the diameter of the entrance hole. Don't be surprised if another bird decides to nest in a box you intended for a woodpecker.
Pileated Woodpeckers sleep or roost in nest cavities of live pine trees. Cavities are built only in large, old pines. The birds peck the bark around the entrance to get the sap flowing around the hole. The sticky sap keeps predators like snakes away from the nest cavity.
The male bird is from 16-19" from tail to head, which is a crow-sized bird, and has a flaming red crest. The female has a blackish forehead, and lacks the red mustache below the eyes.
The Pileated Woodpecker is no longer on the endangered species list.
These woodpeckers may still have problems because forests with younger, smaller pines have replaced open forests with big, old pine trees. Periodic fire is needed to control the thick underbrush and keep the pinewoods open.
Controlled bums are the main reason thii.bird has become more widespread and removed3rom the listing of those still endangered. i
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