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juvie Red Belly? (1 Viewer)

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south east Ohio. Back yard with open fields and woods.
 

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Flickers are an interesting member of woodpecker family - often seen on the ground eating ants!

Quite a lot of woodpeckers do that - in Europe, Green Woodpecker and Wryneck are primarily ground-feeding anteaters, and there's others elsewhere. It's even thought that woodpeckers first evolved as ant-eating specialists, and only later developed wood-working abilities to get at ant nests in trees.
 
Quite a lot of woodpeckers do that - in Europe, Green Woodpecker and Wryneck are primarily ground-feeding anteaters, and there's others elsewhere. It's even thought that woodpeckers first evolved as ant-eating specialists, and only later developed wood-working abilities to get at ant nests in trees.

That's interesting! In the US, flickers are most common on the ground, and seen there more than other places. It makes sense that in other places there are other ant-eating ground-foraging woodpeckers. I've only seen a Wryneck a few times, and always in a tree!
 
Quite a lot of woodpeckers do that - in Europe, Green Woodpecker and Wryneck are primarily ground-feeding anteaters, and there's others elsewhere. It's even thought that woodpeckers first evolved as ant-eating specialists, and only later developed wood-working abilities to get at ant nests in trees.
As far as I understand, Northern Flicker and Green Woodpecker seem to be filling more or less the same ecological niche.
 
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