Bees arrive at their nest in a tree cavity created and long since abandoned by a black woodpecker. For those first few days of the siege, the honeybees appeared helpless in the face of the hornet ...
A woodpecker may be trying to create a nest cavity in the siding of your home. If so, it will be round or irregular and fairly large. This usually occurs in spring at the beginning of their breeding ...
In the woodpecker’s habitat, such as an oak savanna, red-headed woodpeckers act as an “ecosystem engineer,” West explained. They create nesting cavities, which a host of other critters also ...
2008. Evi­dence of positive indirect effects within a com­munity of cavity-nesting vertebrates. Condor 110:441‒449. Laves, K. S., and S. C. Loeb. 1999. Effects of southern flying squirrels (Glaucomys ...
Most recently, Hurricane Helene wiped out 18 nest cavity trees in just one area in Florida. Red-cockaded woodpecker. Credit: Martjan Lammertink/USFS. Image is available for media use. The Center for ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered ... and finally construct a cavity chamber within the heartwood," an FWS website says.