A pair of California woodpeckers are surely crushed after a pest control technician on a routine call recently found their massive trove of acorns cleverly stashed in the walls of a California home.

A pair of California woodpeckers are surely crushed after a pest control technician on a routine call recently found their massive trove of acorns cleverly stashed in the walls of a California home.

Woodpeckers stacked over 700 pounds of acorns 20 to 25 feet high in a California home’s chimney. Santa Rosa exterminator Nick Castro made the discovery during a December vacation rental ...

Acorn woodpeckers are known for storing acorns for safekeeping, Walter Koenig told National Geographic in 2015 after a viral video showed the birds’ storage habit had filled up a ...

Acorn woodpeckers love to collect acorns and “tattoo” them into the holes they create in trees. Placing these acorns into trees helps this food last throughout the winter. But acorn ...

Woodpeckers stashed 700 pounds of acorns in the wall of a California home Exterminator Nick Castro found the massive stash of acorns after being called to a home with a worm problem. "Bird was a ...

Woodpeckers stacked over 700 pounds of acorns 20 to 25 feet high in a California home’s chimney. Santa Rosa exterminator Nick Castro made the discovery during a December vacation rental ...

It was unmistakable, that sound: ritcha-ritcha-ritcha. It had to be an acorn woodpecker, a bird with which I am very familiar. I had not heard it for more than four ...

THE acorn-storing of the California woodpecker is of great interest, as storage of food for use at a distant date is very rare among birds. The woodpecker drills holes in the bark of a tree, and ...