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Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - X
Media notes
Adult bringing dogwood berries to last juvenile in the nest cavity.
Observation details
The young Red-headed Woodpeckers fledged today. We only saw two juveniles with two adults but there could have been more juveniles. When we arrived, one adult was taking food to a recently fledged juvenile at the west side of the playing fields about 100 m from the nest tree. The second adult brought food three times over the course of 1 hour and 10 minutes to a juvenile still in the nest cavity. Immediately after being fed the third time and after the adult had left, the juvenile stuck its head way out of the cavity, looked about and suddenly flew out of the cavity to a nearby tree, where it concealed itself. The adult didn’t know the juvenile left because it brought food to the nest cavity and checked inside, but right away found the vocalizing young in the tree nearby. The adult returned several times to feed the young in the tree but never went back to the nest cavity.
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