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Title: Food of the Woodpeckers of the United States
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: F.E.L. Beal
Subjects: Woodpeckers--United States.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Biological Survey
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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s a bird of mountains and evergreenforests. Its range extends from the eastern slope of the RockyMountains westward to the Pacific, and from Arizona and NewMexico rorthward to British Columbia; south in winter to Mexico.The bird is likely to be of little economic interest except in connectionwith forests. Only 17 stomachs of this species have been received bythe Biological Survey, and all but 2 of these were collected in themonths fi*om June to September, inclusive. Conclusions based on theexamination of so little material must be considered as only tentative.In the first analysis of the food it divides into 87 per cent of animalmatter and 13 of vegetable. Animal food.—Of the animal food a mere trace was shown of click-beetles (Elateridae) and less than 1 per cent of crane flies (Tipulida?).The remainder, 86 per cent, consists entirely of ants, with which 7stomachs were entirely filled. This record places this bird at the Bull 37. Biolofic*! Survey. U.S. Dtpt. of Agnculturw Plate II
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^nvsQvo^ia Tu&fte, f es Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Bull. 37. Biologic*. Pi A-I Ml

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