What is the niche of a woodpecker?
1 Answer
Mar 28, 2017
Insect eater: Woodpecker. Friend of trees, enemy of insects.
Explanation:
A woodpecker consumes insects. By this way, woodpeckers control insect populations in a forest community. A specific example is the pileated woodpecker. It hunts carpenter ants. "It chisels them out of trees with its beak. Without animals like the woodpecker, insect populations could grow beyond control" (New Hampshire Public Television, 2017).
Woodpecker is a consumer.
Reference:
New Hampshire Public TV (2017). Nature Works. Retrieved on the web: http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep14.htm (on March 28, 2017).
