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Article: BACK-YARD BIRDING; Woodpeckers: nuisance to us, hard worker among birds.(HOME & GARDEN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 26, 2002
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Byline: Jim Williams
Special to the Star Tribune
There are nine species of woodpeckers regularly found in Minnesota, the most common among them the black-and-white house pounder.
I have chased woodpeckers from my cedar siding and looked with dismay at fist-sized holes chiseled into the side of the house. Doggone pests!
Woodpeckers, however, are solid citizens in the bird world - hard working, upstanding members of the community, most of whom have been given the unenviable job of spending winter here without a beach vacation.
Our regular woodpeckers are the downy, hairy, red-bellied, black-backed, three-toed, red-headed, ...