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Article: WOODPECKERS PECKING SPEED UNTESTED.(Lifestyles/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 22, 1997
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Byline: Rebecca Jones Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Has anyone ever measured the speed of a woodpecker's head while it's pecking? It sounds like a machine gun. Also, we have one pecking on a metal pole instead of wood. Can't they tell the difference? - Sue, Bailey
Someone, somewhere, probably has. But the best the Wacky Questions staff could do was to find someone to make an educated guess.
``Some woodpecker species, like Northern Flickers, drum more rapidly than others, such as Lewises or the three-toed woodpeckers,'' says Steve Bouricius of Palisade, president of Colorado Field Ornithologists. ``Also, it seems the hardness and resilience ...
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