Posts tagged ‘birds’

image shows a black and white bird with yellow eyes clinging to a grey tree. The tree is barkless, and its surface is dotted with acorns embedded into it in holes that are placed in a series of slightly slanted, but mostly vertical lines.

Do acorn woodpeckers kill the trees they use to store nuts?

Sometimes when you go out and into nature, nature does something so interesting that you want to stop and watch it for a while. Case in point: while on a hike last week, my husband and I came across a colony of acorn woodpeckers stashing nuts for the winter. After watching for awhile, we found ourselves wondering: “Do acorn woodpeckers kill the trees they use to store nuts?”