WOOD PECKERS

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET RID OF WOOD PECKERS? MY FRIEND HAS ONE ON HER ROOF EVERY NIGHT. SHE SAYS IT SOUNDS LIKE A MACHINE GUN. LOL AND ARE WOODPECKERS A PROTECTIVE SPECIES.

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Permalink Reply by Jo Blumenthal on August 24, 2011 at 6:15am

Hi Don,try a Wood Pecker dummy, here one can buy them in animal trade.

Lg,Jo.

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Permalink Reply by ducky on August 24, 2011 at 7:23am

HI JO. DO THEY WORK PRETTY GOOD

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Permalink Reply by Jo Blumenthal on August 24, 2011 at 6:53pm

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Permalink Reply by ducky on August 24, 2011 at 7:21pm

I LIKED THAT. IT IS FUNNY JOE. LOL MY FRIEND HAD A MECHANICAL OWL THAT SCREECHED ALL NIGHT LONG. IT DIDN'T WORK AND THE NEIGHBORS ALL COMPLAINED. LOL IT DID SCARE THE LOCAL DELIVERY MAN THOUGH. LOL

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Permalink Reply by Christina Pontius on August 25, 2011 at 9:35am

I have never heard of nocturnal woodpeckers. We have them in our backyard but they are never on the roof. I guess that is the plus side of having trees all over the neighborhood and leaving some of the dead branches in the trees. They live in and look for food in dead wood. So if you have some dead branches in your trees or dead trees somewhere close by, that helps keep them off of your roof. Sorry I cannot help any better than that, but we enjoy seeing and hearing the woodpeckers in our yard. We have a number of different types of birds in our yard and they are all welcome, even the starlings that nest behind our chimney. Some of the 180 types of woodpeckers are on a couple of endangered lists. The Imperial, Ivory-Billed, Kaempfer's, Okinawa woodpeckers are listed as critically endangered. The Fernandina's, Arabian, Sulu, Helmeted, and Red-cockaded are listed as vulnerable.

Threats to woodpeckers include loss of habitat, human encroachment, and pesticides.

Climate change may also pose a direct threat to woodpeckers and their habitats

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Permalink Reply by ducky on August 25, 2011 at 10:31am

ty christina.

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Permalink Reply by ducky on August 26, 2011 at 6:23am

CORRECTION : WHEN I SAID ALL NIGHT LONG, I MEANT ALL MORNING LONG. I STAND CORRECTED

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Permalink Reply by Lisbeth Mønsted Larsen on September 3, 2011 at 1:45am

Hello Don Woodpeckers are teritorial what you can do to rid yourself of this "pest" is remove the worms from the roof because that is what they are after and by pecking on the roof tiles they lure the insects out and then feast on them.So get rid of the bug problem and the woodpeckers will leave for a better feeding spot.