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What Does It Mean When You See a Woodpecker? Seeing a woodpecker isn't just a chance wildlife encounter—it often carries important spiritual messages.

Even if not officially extinct, the ivory-billed woodpecker’s absence from our native fauna leaves a lamentable ecovoid. Nonetheless we still have pileated woodpeckers, as well as others.

And with that, the pileated woodpecker flew off, retreating to a sycamore in her yard. Gallucci had her car back − but she didn't realize that neighborhood feathers would be flying soon.

With the Galluccis' cars finally garaged, the woodpecker took to the cars of both of her next-door neighbors, cracking their mirrors. "Now the neighborhood is on watch.

Woodpecker diets vary, but all feed upon insects including: larvae, beetles, ants, caterpillars, true bugs and others. Diet items also include tree saps, berries and fruits, acorns, cacti tuna and ...

They are the largest North American woodpeckers, reaching over a foot long. The only woodpecker that was bigger in the U.S. was the ivory-billed species, though it’s likely extinct.