Acorn Woodpecker Family Guards Their Stash

Acorn woodpeckers love to collect acorns and “tattoo” them into the holes they create in trees.

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“Woodpeckers: The Hole Story“ premieres November 2, 2022, at 8|7c on PBS.

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Acorn woodpeckers love to collect acorns and “tattoo” them into the holes they create in trees. Placing these acorns into trees helps this food last throughout the winter. But acorn woodpeckers aren't the only ones who love acorns, so they need to carefully watch their stash.

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[nbmooselovers]

Just watched a news video of 700 lbs of acorn's stashed in the walls of a house. Decided to look up more about acorn woodpeckers and here I am! True story!...Amazing Creatures"! Great video! 😊👍👍

[edwardbella]

Humans:Cars, Money, Jewelry
Wood Pecker:Acorns

[pamelitahamel]

One of my favorite glimpses of these woodpeckers came from my window where I watched one woodpecker sending acorns down a small gutter pipe from the roof top to its friend posted down below! Ingenious!

[BalancedEarth]

The woodpeckers seeing another woodpecker trying to integrate into the flock. "You're not that guy pal, you're not that guy"

[michaelmassaro]

I have red bellies Downies and pileated woodpeckers in my area I know there’s other species like this one the acorn woodpecker the hairies the flickers and many more I’m glad for the 3 species I do get to see I’ve been able to get videos of the pileated one was right outside my patio hammering away at a hole in the tree the red bellies and Downies are regular visitors to my feeders One of my favorite kinds of bird for sure

[lil----lil]

This is beyond crazy. That's more food than they can, _collectively_ eat in a single year. NUTS!

[imranw]

Acorn security duty!!😂❤ that the new fighter force!😂😂😂

[nothanks]

This is actually really freaking me out. Holes packed together with things in them, just makes my skin crawl.

[princedjaba]

How great and Unlimited is the beauty, power and wisdom of God. Such a beautiful creature

[ripvanwinkle]

These guys are fun to watch. Lots of things about them are funny and Goofy. And for woodpeckers they are rather not shy

[luziaflone]

Acorns are enough to make these birds happy. I wish us human are like that.

[Lisa-nvko]

WOW….nature/natural world is beautiful & amazing 🙏

[uss_]

That one batch of woodpeckers who kept on sending down 700 lb of actors through the innards of a home must have been so confused

[cheryldahl]

They're wearing their ID on their ankle's so they can tell who belongs and who doesn't. 🤣

[richardtaylor]

I love the Woodpeckers around my house.

[sysopr]

Thank you so much for this magnificent video 👍👍😊😊

[danni]

I believe that's called...hoarding?
At least it is when humans do it. 😂

[kapitantutan]

Acorns literally all over the ground. Those squirrel chose to steal their stash 😂

[GalateaPolifemo]

Thank you so very much for sharing such a beautiful video.

[mattware]

For some reason these woodpecker stashes make my ears itch