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Boy bird house architecture

Chapter 10: The Woodpecker.
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This practical guide explains how to build and maintain nesting boxes for common native birds, describing which species readily use artificial homes and the design features that attract them. It covers suitable materials, exterior finishes, precise box dimensions, placement and mounting, feeding devices, and seasonal care, and includes detailed plates and drawings of proven house types for bluebirds, robins, wrens, woodpeckers, nuthatches, swallows, titmice, and chickadees. Instructions for organizing school or community bird-house contests and exhibits are also provided.

The Woodpecker.

The woodpeckers are the true bird carpenters and do a great amount of good in destroying harmful insects and boring worms.

These birds are found most everywhere in the United States, several species remaining in the northern States throughout the year.

Two of the best known woodpeckers, the hairy woodpecker and the downy woodpecker, range over a greater part of the United States.

One of the larger woodpeckers familiar to us all is the flicker, or golden winged woodpecker.

Most all of the woodpeckers will adopt the artificial house, especially those hollowed out of a split piece of limb.