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red-headed bird often chips out large holes in trees while
searching out insects, especially ants. It laps up ants by
reaching into crevices with its long tongue. A
pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus, formerly Picus
pileatus) eats a fig off the branch of a native Florida strangler
fig tree. The pileated woodpecker grows to the size of a crow
and mainly eat insects, especially carpenter ants and woodboring
beetle larvae. It also eats fruits, nuts and berries. The
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