Golden-tailed woodpecker

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Golden-tailed woodpecker

The Golden-tailed woodpecker is fairly common in sub-saharan Africa, preferring riparian, Miombo and Mopane woodland. It mainly forages in trees, tapping and probing branches, looking for insects and licking them up with its barbed tongue. Both sexes excavate the nest, which is usually a hole in the underside of a tree branch. Here it lays 2-3 eggs, which are incubated by both sexes for about 13 days. The chicks are cared for by both parents, eventually leaving the nest after about 22-25 days. They become fully independent a few weeks after fledging.

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