![]() Fresh acorns dry out and shrink, so the birds have to maintain the granary by moving the acorns to smaller holes later. Wedging acorns into these holes deters crows, jays, squirrels and others from burglarizing the acorn cache. The birds hammer the acorns into the holes and when they want to eat a nut, they come back and peck the shell open. These are called “granaries,” and the holes were made by the woodpeckers in order to store acorns. Its scientific name, Melanerpes formicivorous, means “the black creeper that eats ants.” Signs of the Acorn Woodpecker are dead limbs or trunks that have numerous thumb-size holes in them, as many as 50,000. All year where there are an abundance of oak trees, you will often see these woodpeckers displaying with their outstretched wings and calling with a distinctive nyaah, nyaah, nyaah. The Acorn Woodpecker is a common woodpecker found in the western parts of California and Oregon and parts of the southwestern U.S. ![]()
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