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HAIRY WOODPECKER
Published by the National Association of Audubon Societies
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its smaller relative, the Downy, it spenales Egbouk
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No. 20 Hairy Woodpecker
Length 972 inches
This active and hardy Woodpecker is usually
found in heavy woods during the nesting season.
In the winter, however, it frequently comes aboya
our lawns and orchards where, in company with
gleaning in the crevices of the bark for larvae
and insects which constitute the
of its food. It is much şhyerc than Downy,
and is more difficult of approach, but it may often
be enticed to the feeding shelf or to the supply of
suet which has been provided for the winter birds.
Often, like the Dowwy,
it may be surprised and
approached very closely.
The note of the Hairy is much louder and
sharper than that of the Downy, and this ought
to enable anyone to distinguish the two birds.
The nest is generally excavated in a dead tree,
and from four to six white eggs are laid.
its search for food that comes so intent upon
Classification: Order Pici. Family Picida.
Scientific name: Dryobates villosus.
Range: Distributed in its varying forms throughout
most of the wooded areas of the United States and
Canada.
No. 20 from set of 50 Winter Birds of the Northeastern United
States. Published by the National Association of Audubon So.
cieties, 1974 Broadway, New York City. Price per set, in a box,
$1.00 post paid.
