The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 20
their necks andheads, can drive a deep hole into the side of atree or stump; but this California woodpecker issaid to surpass them all as a hole-digger; and henot only digs the hole, but he fills it up with anut or an acorn. This is the strangest part of his performance;i r while a great many other… … THE WOODPECKERS STOREHOUSE. in the shape of nuts and acorns, and youthem, almost any day in autumn, snatch-acorns from twigs and branches. Thesame instinct prompts thiswoodpecker to lay in his storesof acorns. Some people say,however, that he never resortsto these supplies again, but justlays them…
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