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Laced Woodpecker foraging on the ground

YC Wee
on 26th May 2012

A 2010 post on the Laced woodpecker (Picus vittatus) foraging on the ground LINK alerted birdwatchers to this behaviour. This resulted in two other earlier documentations. And with this post, we have a total of four.

“A long while later, as I was stepping away from this vibrant (although confined) area, I saw this male Laced Woodpecker swooping downwards to the forest floor. There I spotted yet another Laced Woodpecker, this time, the female, to what seemed like, foraging on the ground. With very poor lighting because of the dense canopy, I could only tell that it was pecking away on fallen branches, not clear if there was any prey?”

Ong Ei Leen
Singapore, 8th April 2012

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YC Wee

Dr Wee played a significant role as a green advocate in Singapore through his extensive involvement in various organizations and committees: as Secretary and Chairman for the Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch), and with the Nature Society (Singapore) as founding President (1978-1995). He has also served in the Nature Reserve Board (1987-1989), Nature Reserves Committee (1990-1996), National Council on the Environment/Singapore Environment Council (1992-1996), Work-Group on Nature Conservation (1992) and Inter-Varsity Council on the Environment (1995-1997). He is Patron of the Singapore Gardening Society and was appointed Honorary Museum Associate of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) in 2012. In 2005, Dr Wee started the Bird Ecology Study Group. With more than 6,000 entries, the website has become a valuable resource consulted by students, birdwatchers and researchers locally and internationally. The views and opinions expressed in this article are his own, and do not represent those of LKCNHM, the National University of Singapore or its affiliated institutions.

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2 Responses

  1. This post reminds me of my own experience of a pair of Golden backed Woodpeckers foraging on the ground under a tree just out side the gate of the residence of the Police Commissioner at Nagpur, way back in the early nineteen eighties. I was passing on scooter and at my approach, the birds took to air immediately.

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