Bird Watching: My wonderful woodpeckers have returned !!!!, 1 by tigerlily

tigerlily wrote:
I don't know of any other name for them, but perhaps you're unfamiliar with the Acorn WP because you don't have them back there. They're a western bird, found in parts of SW Oregon, most of California and Nevada, and very small areas of New Mexico and Texas. They're sometimes refered to as the clown of the woods. I'd encourage you to do a search on them, as they're very interesting birds. The famlies remain together, and they gather and store acorns for winter in a dead tree, called a granary tree. To my knowledge, this is a unique habit.

This message was edited Oct 16, 2007 10:55 PM