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Woodpeckers eat nuts, berries, termites, grubs, and other bugs that live inside trees. It pecks through the wood of a tree to find the bugs living inside.

That is why their beaks are so long... and strong!

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They are omnivorous, eating insects, seeds, fruits berries and nuts.

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Dominated by ants of various species but will also take other invertebrates, pine seeds and fruits (especially windfall apples)

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This is the reason woodpeckers peck at the bark on old trees to find little bugs and eggs that bugs have layed so that they could eat them...

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I think it depens on how an animal"s diet.

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