Natural Food: Woodpeckers

**Natural Foods of Piciformes (Woodpeckers)**
Common Bird Name	Insects
Common Bird Name	Arthropod	Blattaria	Coleop- tera	Diptera	Ephemerop- tera	Hemip- tera	Hymenop- tera	Isoptera	Lepidop- tera	Orthop- tera
Black-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker			⁽²²⁾				⁽²¹⁾		⁽¹⁷⁾
Hairy Woodpecker	^(3.5)		⁽³¹⁾				⁽¹⁷⁾		⁽¹⁰⁾
Pileated Woodpecker			⁽²²⁾				⁽⁴⁰⁾		⁽²⁾
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker							⁽¹¹⁾
Three-toed Woodpecker									⁽¹⁴⁾
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-shafted Flicker							⁽⁴⁵⁾

Percentage of insect diet in ()
Information compiled using Arthur Cleveland Bent's Life Histories Series

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