When the Sun, lassoed by an Indian boy, was burning up the Earth, Woodpeckers cut the rope with their bills, their head feathers being burned red by the heat. All save WILLIAMSON SAPSUCKER helped save the world — he staid behind a tree and so has no accolade. His consort was formerly the Brownhead Woodpecker — a natural mistake for no other Woodpeckers show such variation in color between sexes. Some observers state they can be identified by their taps — two followed by four.
Ants form nine-tenths of the insect food, with dessert of cambium bark. Alarm displayed over this indulgence is rather amusing because the amount of inner bark which might be eaten seldom would kill a tree.
Western North America from southern British Columbia and Montana south to southern California, central Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas.
One of the large low branching Oaks with enormous limbs leaving the 3 to 6 foot trunk close to the ground and extending to a spread of 150 feet. Ranges rom central California south and forms open groves in Mendocino county. Abundant and largest in valleys south of San Francisco. The common and generally distributed Oak in southwestern California up to 2500 feet, degenerating into low contorted semi shrubs among the sand dunes.