tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937810202619602161.post7323798353296788122..comments2023-03-26T09:46:22.163-04:00Comments on Campephilus Woodpeckers: Robust Woodpecker Feeding Its YoungBill Benishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12006394626709197388noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937810202619602161.post-43051036327505936472012-01-01T18:08:08.160-05:002012-01-01T18:08:08.160-05:00A remarkable thing about this video is that the ca...A remarkable thing about this video is that the cavity seems extremely shallow and that the chick seems to be sitting horizontally on the bottom while it being fed. Typically, Campephilus nest holes (and those of most other woodpeckers) are quite deep. When the chicks are near fledging, they receive food in the nest entrance but in a different posture than what is seen in the video. I e-mailed the film maker Jorge Kutsmi to ask if there was a special circumstance that made the chick end up in this odd, apparent emergency situation of a cavity, and indeed Jorge wrote back to me with the following:<br /><br />“The explanation I got was that the nest was originally in the same tree (an embaúba tree in an advanced stage of decay). A rain storm with strong gusts of wind broke the tree exactly where the original nest cavity was. The person who took care of the land found the broken tree and two young woodpeckers, one dead and another alive and all wet. Because the parents were around he put the chick in another cavity in the part of the same tree that was still standing and they started to feed him. It is even possible the hole in the video was made by the person who rescued the chick, I never met him and did not hear more details of the event”.Martjan Lammertinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04193794400469675207noreply@blogger.com