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Three Hokkaido Woodpeckers

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For example, is there the equivalent of a “mansplaining” drum pattern only used by the males? One study on Hokkaido found that 47 out of 110 old woodpecker holes were used by renters, which in the biological world are called secondary cavity users. Can you tell the sex of a Great Spotted Woodpecker by its drumming pattern?

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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The Ashy Tailorbird is a good example of the different perspectives of describing a bird – while the English name focuses on the body of the bird, the Latin species name ruficeps refers to the rufous head. (I The paper cites the example of the Blue-footed Booby: Its foot color becomes duller when the birds are malnourished.