The bird who knows how to cut corners
Tullberg's woodpecker
(Campethera tullbergi)
Photo by Nick Athanas
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How long is the woodpecker's tongue??
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| The woodpecker's tongue is long enough to reach insects in side of the tree and even the edge of the tongue has rough surface to catch insects. |
Where can I find
Greater Honeyguide in Uganda?
This bird can be found in Echuya forest reserve.
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21. Tullberg's Woodpecker
NFA bird Podcast: I am Johnnie Kamugisha. The
bird for today is Tullberg's Woodpercker
This a plain olive-green above with a red cap
variably mottled blackish on the crown.
The sides of the face and throat are grey with
very fine dark barring.
The rest of the underparts are yellowish-green
barred all over with dark olive.
It is 19 cm long.
Woodpeckers, Piculets, Wrynecks, and
Sapsuckers are a family, Picidae, of near passerine birds.
Members of this family are found worldwide,
except for Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar and a few other areas.
Most of them live in forests or woodland
habitats, save for a few known to leave in treeless areas, like rocky hillsides
and deserts.
Woodpeckers range from highly antisocial
solitary species that are aggressive to other members of their species, to spp
that live in groups.
The woodpecker diet consist of mainly
insects and their grubs taken from living and dead trees, fruit, nuts and sup
from live trees.
The insects prey most commonly taken are those
found inside tree trunks, whether alive, dead or rotten.
Woodpeckers have got barbed tongues which they
use to excavate their prey.
These may be obtained either by gleaning or,
most famously, by excavating wood.
They nest in tree cavities and they excavate
their own nests.
The nest is usually only lined from the wood
chips produced as the hole was made.
Many woodpecker species excavate one hole per
breeding season, and it takes about a month to finish the excavation.
Tullberg's Woodpecker is said to have been
split into two Uganda remaining with the one called Fine-banded Woodpecker.
It can be found in forests like Bwindi, Echuya
among others.
The bird for today is Tullberg's Woodpecker
and am Johnnie Kamugisha.
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