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/

laced woodpecker @ bukit brown - Jan2012

Found myself in a quiet spot when a bird flew past and landed on a tree closeby. It started machine-gunning the wood on the tree stump. Obviously it was a woodpecker ... upon checking later, i think it was a female Laced Woodpecker. It stayed on the stump for a few minutes occasionally preening itself and intermittently woodpecking the stump.

Read more about this bird here :

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

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

http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/laced-woodpecker-picus-vittatus

and find out about Bukit Brown here :

http://bukitbrown.org/

http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com/2011/10/bukit-brown-hope-springs-eternal.html

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_736000.html