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Three Hokkaido Woodpeckers

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.” Some of the ecological importance of the Great Spotted Woodpecker comes from its role as a real estate developer, fortunately without the debt problems that currently plague the Chinese companies taking up this role in the human world. But of course, many forests are not protected, and thus their habitat quality declines.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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Anyway, one of the babblers of Sepilok is the Bornean Black-capped Babbler – the result of a split of the Black-capped Babbler (well, at least from a human perspective – the birds themselves are probably quite nonchalant about it). Makes them sort of the renters of the woodpecker world rather than homeowners.