Acorns, beachnuts, and walnuts are particular favorites.ĭr. Downies also eat the seeds of oaks, apples, hornbeams, sumac, hickory, and beach. 25% of a downy’s diet are plants made up of the berries of poison ivy, mountain ash, Virginia creeper, serviceberry, tupelo, and dogwood. They also eat spiders, snails, ants, beetles, weevils, and caterpillars, with other local insects included. With their special chisel-like bills and horny, sticky tongues, downies are adept at plucking out great numbers of beetle grubs, insect cocoons, or batches of insect eggs. While standing on that unique tripod of two legs and a tail, downies hitch up and down tree trunks in search of a whole laundry list of insect pests. About 75% of their diet is made up of animal matter gleaned from bark and crevices where insect larvae and eggs lie hidden. Most of the insects they eat are considered destructive to man’s orchards and forest products. Foodīesides being friendly, downy woodpeckers are our good friends for another reason. A bird lover in Wisconsin described downies at their feeding station: “The downies will back down to the suet container on the basswood tree while I sit only a few feet away on the patio. The downy is unquestionably the friendliest woodpecker. The downy woodpecker is sometimes referred to as “little downy.” Behavior towards Humans Gairdner’s woodpecker / Gairdneri pubescensīatchelder’s woodpecker / Leucurus pubescens There are also six particular downies with six particular scientific names all from different regions of the United States and southern Canada which I have listed below: The downy woodpecker’s scientific name is Picoides pubescens. There is also a location call, known as a “whinny”, made up of a dozen or more tchicks all strung together. They have several single-syllable call notes which include “tchick”, an aggressive social note which are alarm notes. This drumming is the downy’s song, though they do make some vocal noises. Like the hairy woodpecker, the downy beats a tattoo on a dry resonant tree branch.
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