hammering laced woodpecker @ bidadari - June 2012

The soon-to-be-deforested forest resounded with the distinctive repetitious hammering of a tree trunk. It did not take too long to figure out which tree was being hammered but the hammerer flew off as I came around the tree. It came back after about 15 minutes to the same spot. It was a male laced woodpecker. The hammering took place at intervals of about a minute and lasted each time for just about 2 seconds. The woodpecker would wait about a minute to resume its 2 seconds of hammering.

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It flew off after a while but the hammering was heard again after the camera left.

Find out more about this resident woodpecker :

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=726

http://singaporebirds.net/npassers_01/laced_woodpecker.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laced_Woodpecker

http://www.besgroup.org/2012/06/28/laced-woodpecker-and-durians/

http://www.besgroup.org/2012/03/26/laced-woodpecker-foraging-on-the-ground/

http://www.besgroup.org/2011/05/16/ground-pecking-laced-woodpecker/

http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/birds/woodpeckers.htm

https://vimeo.com/36165497

http://mygreenspace.nparks.gov.sg/a-most-odd-tree-doctor/