Female Eastern Downy woodpecker
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Location: Hendrie Valley Trails, Royal Botanical Gardens
Woodpeckers don’t sing songs, but they drum loudly against pieces of wood or metal to achieve the same effect. People sometimes think this drumming is part of the birds’ feeding habits, but it isn’t. In fact, feeding birds make surprisingly little noise even when they’re digging vigorously into wood.
An average-sized chipmunk measuring four inches in length is almost as long as two golf tees lined up end to end. The biggest species is the Eastern chipmunk. An adult Eastern chipmunk measures about 11 inches long, from the tip of its nose to the tip of its bristly tail.
The dark pigment in their feathers is melanin. A trick of the light causes the blue color in their feathers. Scattering light through cells on their feather barbs’ surface makes their feathers appear to be blue.