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  • Acorn woodpeckers must deal with birds of prey, greedy ground squirrels and a hectic gathering schedule to protect their treasured acorn hoard.
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  • @conqueeftador913
    @conqueeftador913 Před 3 lety +250

    Woodpecker: all set for winter
    Squirrel: Arigato

    • @attheratehandle
      @attheratehandle Před 3 lety +4

      Public FYI: Arigato means thank you in japanese

    • @bridgettetalamantes8803
      @bridgettetalamantes8803 Před 2 lety +2

      Mr robato

    • @nicoburbano6538
      @nicoburbano6538 Před 2 lety

      @@attheratehandle tell me what documentary of a acorn woodpecker gathering acorns in the granary tree Walt Koenig National Geographic?

  • @darian6423
    @darian6423 Před 5 lety +755

    1:34 That was the most dramatic dropping of an acorn I’ve ever seen

  • @Igor-ug1uo
    @Igor-ug1uo Před 7 lety +921

    They collect more food than they need you say? Tax them!

  • @bigben0316
    @bigben0316 Před 4 lety +500

    I searched this.
    In case someone blames "recommendations".

  • @crewcutter2030
    @crewcutter2030 Před 5 lety +462

    When bird works harder than you.

  • @icedilli25
    @icedilli25 Před 12 lety +674

    when I'm older, I want be a woodpecker

  • @rosebud1644
    @rosebud1644 Před 8 lety +304

    oh boy those trees are sending shivers down my spine.... aghhhh!!!!

    • @malachaimcknight4555
      @malachaimcknight4555 Před 6 lety +4

      rosebud1644 me too omg

    • @dextersilva4411
      @dextersilva4411 Před 5 lety +11

      Body's aching all the time

    • @mr.cheese7339
      @mr.cheese7339 Před 4 lety +31

      Oh, so u guys have trypophobia..
      Trypophobia is a condition where a person experiences a fear or aversion to clusters of small holes. The condition is thought to be triggered when a person sees a pattern of small clustered holes, bringing about symptoms, such as fear, disgust, and anxiety.

    • @ejasharis5041
      @ejasharis5041 Před 4 lety +8

      Well that's trypophobia.. fear of cluster holes ... I have the same issue ..m but what bothers me more is when the holes are filled with acorns... anyways welcome to the club mate

    • @Nagaras777
      @Nagaras777 Před 4 lety +13

      This whole hole phobia is not really a phobia. It's a remnant of an ancient instinct that alerted people in the past when they were still primitive which plants and animals are venomous and/or sting. The feeling you get is a subconscious projection of bite marks on the body. The trees here seem somehow wounded or "bitten". If you feel chills it is a form of imagining a crawling insect is about to bite or sting you. So the whole thing is part of an evolutionary mechanism that tells you don't get stung or bitten.

  • @JettyBootChamp
    @JettyBootChamp Před 3 lety +26

    "They're engaging in a behavior called hording."
    TLC: We'll take it from here.

  • @ItsYaBoyYogi
    @ItsYaBoyYogi Před 2 lety +92

    there’s two woodpeckers who keep destroying the siding of my house, it’s a battle every year to keep them off. They realized the fake owl was indeed fake and started ignoring it 😭

    • @Ioganstone
      @Ioganstone Před rokem +15

      I guess it wasn't owl that.

    • @angerybubzz659
      @angerybubzz659 Před rokem +1

      Bb gun?

    • @JohnSmith-ys4nl
      @JohnSmith-ys4nl Před rokem +4

      I'm here for the same reason. There's a woodpecker who pecks on the wall just outside my bedroom and it sounds like a machine gun going off. lol

    • @DanielHHurt
      @DanielHHurt Před rokem +4

      Then you have insects in your house. Woodpeckers are a Flag bird.

    • @shawnv123
      @shawnv123 Před 10 měsíci +1

      lmao

  • @fluffything7134
    @fluffything7134 Před 4 lety +46

    "pounded snuggly into the hole"

  • @maidenjapan66
    @maidenjapan66 Před 8 lety +1597

    Those trees......Its giving me Trypophobia

    • @combatveteran240
      @combatveteran240 Před 8 lety +81

      +John Tortorella i finally know what that is! lol thanks. i get the same thing and didnt know it had a name...uuuugh! it makes me itch and get goosebumps and some sort of uneasy feeling. look up the frog with the holes in its back.

    • @CenturianEagle
      @CenturianEagle Před 7 lety +45

      John Tortorella I came to check the comments to see if I wasn't the only one- it doesn't bother me unless they have acorns, trybophobia bothers me so much I'm purposely trying to be vague in describing which part of the vid bothered me, I don't even wanna be associated with this stuff ahh haha man I wish trybophobia didn't exist

    • @bruhbry831
      @bruhbry831 Před 6 lety +10

      Cosmonaut Gross I can already imagine the frog!

    • @DakotaofRaptors
      @DakotaofRaptors Před 6 lety +4

      Cosmonaut look up mango worms

    • @mitchyy3357
      @mitchyy3357 Před 6 lety +2

      Same

  • @JesusIsKing277
    @JesusIsKing277 Před 3 lety +77

    It’s incredible how nature works!

  • @blockbusterandy
    @blockbusterandy Před 3 lety +29

    meanwhile squirrels: Its free real estate

  • @artbytesia
    @artbytesia Před 2 měsíci +2

    How do these guys not get headaches or dizzy?! It's quite amazing!

    • @edp2506
      @edp2506 Před 2 měsíci

      Thought the same. Immuned to concussions 😅

    • @davidriley1702
      @davidriley1702 Před měsícem

      So amazing, just ask woody woodpecker

  • @SchlimmShadySmash
    @SchlimmShadySmash Před 12 lety +47

    When the squirrel was attacked I was all like "YEAH get em!" I'm senseless...

    • @marciabramson6194
      @marciabramson6194 Před 4 lety +3

      Cruel to attack little squirrel. With all those nuts, learn to share. My goodness.

    • @vlo9079
      @vlo9079 Před 3 lety +1

      Me too. I can't stand tree rats

    • @Ioganstone
      @Ioganstone Před rokem

      @@marciabramson6194 Nuts don't grow on- Figuratively speaking nuts don't grow on trees

  • @redache467
    @redache467 Před 5 lety +22

    These birds are determined far more than I’ll ever be.

  • @dericksoto9045
    @dericksoto9045 Před 9 lety +86

    THATS A LOT OF NUTS!!

  • @tonytran07
    @tonytran07 Před 2 lety +5

    They truly are the funniest birds in the world.
    Love them!

  • @tomerzafon4
    @tomerzafon4 Před 12 lety +6

    I like to see woodpeckers in action, these diligent workers are adorable

  • @inleusa2980
    @inleusa2980 Před 3 lety +8

    Jotaro: *Reads title*
    Also him: "So that Woodpecker has the same type of stand as Star Platinum!"

  • @exhumorr
    @exhumorr Před 3 lety +3

    I have a woodpecker in a tree above my house! I love the little guy!🖤🤍

  • @nishantintouch
    @nishantintouch Před 2 lety +16

    Nature balances EVERYTHING.
    It's the ultimate lesson of life on earth

    • @Ioganstone
      @Ioganstone Před rokem +1

      Not true, my jenga tower fell over.

  • @dearmimi1072
    @dearmimi1072 Před 5 lety +20

    2:12 That squirrel thought he was slick🤣🤣😭

  • @BirdinginMalaysia
    @BirdinginMalaysia Před 4 lety +70

    Fascinating and very informative video of the woodpecker. Incredible to see how nature works.

  • @Spam2004
    @Spam2004 Před 11 měsíci +6

    God is amazing ❤

  • @Ioganstone
    @Ioganstone Před rokem

    woodpeckers be like PFF I ain't pickin that up

  • @joshsanders5263
    @joshsanders5263 Před 8 lety +105

    A friend o mine who lives in the Bronx had to run out of his house with his gun in hand because of a loose woodpecker!
    The roof of his house has some segments made of iron and when the woodpecker began the tapping on then, it sounded like a fucking machine gun being fired! LoL
    I'm still laughing from his reaction!!

  • @Loshia2002
    @Loshia2002 Před 12 lety +4

    I love these little guys! There's lots of 'em round our house as we've got tons of live oak trees for them to pilfer as well as lots of telephone poles perfectly suited as a larder...very engaging lil fellas!

  • @PJ_Wendigo
    @PJ_Wendigo Před 5 lety +3

    This bird is every trypophobe's worst nightmare

  • @jacobspowell4416
    @jacobspowell4416 Před 5 lety +5

    2:10 HEY! What do you think you're doing!? Get away from them acorns! Infernal Squirrels!

  • @tommyboybr
    @tommyboybr Před 4 lety +27

    Ahhh, nature and its animals, so perfect, one helps the other!

    • @rickydiscord7671
      @rickydiscord7671 Před 2 lety +1

      but than there animals that has flame able droppings and a few more downside animals. but the real issue are the insects at lest half of them would make anyone's day a bad one. arachnids like animals. they don't really bother anyone unless you the one's bothering them.

  • @yttomass
    @yttomass Před 3 lety +27

    I’m curious, do they only peck dead trees? My grandfather had a yard full of large oak and pecan trees. He had woodpeckers and one of the pecan trees had thousands of holes rounding it in a spiral ring. That was 25 years ago. The tree seems to be alive now and my sister lives there now.

    • @legal040
      @legal040 Před 10 měsíci +8

      your sister lives in a tree?

    • @Cephalon_Ordis
      @Cephalon_Ordis Před 8 měsíci

      Good question
      I want to know too

  • @KD-sz5bx
    @KD-sz5bx Před 3 lety +4

    My whole face feels like pins and needles looking at those tiny holes.

  • @mariawittekfeil3194
    @mariawittekfeil3194 Před 9 lety +2

    Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing.Thumbs up!

  • @mr19zee
    @mr19zee Před 4 lety +2

    Squirrel sees a woodpecker : stonks

  • @BestMusic-ef7yk
    @BestMusic-ef7yk Před 3 lety

    Those squirrels are just chillin bruh!😂😂

  • @cju4300
    @cju4300 Před 3 lety +4

    I feel lazy compared to woodpeckers. They are so hard working

  • @cedricdecat1999
    @cedricdecat1999 Před rokem +1

    Funny that in Dutch a squirrel is called “eekhoorn”, which sounds exactly like “acorn”. Eekhoorn likes acorn.

  • @1958mlvc
    @1958mlvc Před 4 měsíci +1

    I was waiting for them to laugh. Maybe next time

  • @hembrel
    @hembrel Před 2 lety +4

    I've had the pleasure of seeing these guys. I love em too much ❤️

  • @Rojo1840
    @Rojo1840 Před 7 lety +4

    Amazing animals!

  • @a__wills
    @a__wills Před 2 lety +1

    This is the funniest video I've ever seen!!! This narrator is hilarious 😂

  • @teroblepuns
    @teroblepuns Před rokem +1

    "Th- this is my hole! It was made for me!"
    ~ A. Corn

  • @anshujoshi3815
    @anshujoshi3815 Před 2 lety +1

    Woodpeckers are hard workers. We must learn from them. This is a very good motivational video.

  • @bigdaz3903
    @bigdaz3903 Před 4 lety +2

    what a intelligent beautiful little bird.

  • @tonieharper9643
    @tonieharper9643 Před 11 měsíci +1

    The baby is making the woodpecker song 🎶

  • @marco.scaligeri
    @marco.scaligeri Před 3 lety

    quite interesting how their chatters has a repetition of 5 or 8 high-pitched sounds...thanks NG for this wonderful docu

  • @FishingMystic
    @FishingMystic Před 12 lety +2

    YES THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

  • @memoramos2149
    @memoramos2149 Před 5 lety +2

    Yes I live in Carmel ca and I can hear them from far away such hard workers

  • @indigokids88
    @indigokids88 Před měsícem

    I love to sit outside and just watch and listen the sun feels great ❤❤

  • @madghost5741
    @madghost5741 Před 3 lety +7

    2:29 “NuUutS”

  • @laurendaniel6274
    @laurendaniel6274 Před 3 lety +1

    Do they charge other woodpeckers for the storage units? 🤣

  • @jontorres8272
    @jontorres8272 Před 4 lety

    Very informative video. Thank you

  • @rebeccalyon3847
    @rebeccalyon3847 Před 2 měsíci

    Wonderful. One woodpecker came "back from the dead" and hid out in the cypress swamps of the US for half a century. They are powerful and can break through trees in just hours. AWESOME animals.

  • @martadefranco6072
    @martadefranco6072 Před rokem +1

    Wow amazing birds so cute 😊

  • @micahhuge1474
    @micahhuge1474 Před rokem

    I like how most of the woodpecker sounds used in this video are hairy woodpecker sounds 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @victorgb29
    @victorgb29 Před 3 lety +2

    Nature is amazing

  • @quackwalks
    @quackwalks Před 8 lety +1

    That last slow-mo acorn; BOOOMCRASSSH.

  • @simongamer987
    @simongamer987 Před 4 lety

    These are amazing birds wow

  • @nezpercenathan
    @nezpercenathan Před 12 lety

    I watched woodpecker once, not this kind, but it was prettty funny. He looked like he was just banging his head in the tree!

  • @jwu8888
    @jwu8888 Před 12 lety

    Just left family retreat @Verdugo Pines Bible Camp, I saw a lot of acorns on a tree. This video solves my question. Thanks.

  • @ciaragarrity6425
    @ciaragarrity6425 Před 2 lety +1

    Wow, that was a great movie. Amazing!

  • @arunjames6494
    @arunjames6494 Před 5 lety +27

    I love how woodpeckers they move there heads

  • @DianaKazimiera-
    @DianaKazimiera- Před 3 lety +12

    Nature is phenomenal and very intelligent.The behaviors are fantastic 💚🌿🍀🍃

  • @hanslanda8682
    @hanslanda8682 Před 6 lety +2

    Love Birds 😍

  • @Jacksirrom
    @Jacksirrom Před 6 lety

    This was a way more dramatic and weird 3 minutes than I ever expected. What a trip.

  • @adamwheelerproductions1607

    I live in Northern Maine, and I hear that pecking sound every time I leave my window open.

  • @kickass9898
    @kickass9898 Před 3 lety

    Squirrel: time2munch
    Woodpecker: so you have chosen... death

  • @FranciscoLMasso
    @FranciscoLMasso Před 5 lety

    Natureza inteligente

  • @ZJLegal
    @ZJLegal Před 9 měsíci +2

    Wao. It is amazing that how creator created nature 😮

  • @MitchellTheMitch
    @MitchellTheMitch Před 3 lety +1

    Them birds be triggering my trypophobia

  • @rkr894able
    @rkr894able Před 6 lety

    I lived in an appartment built on hills where woodpeckers *dohodhodhodhdohd* makes noise and pretty much every morning and evening and always thought someone was hunting deers LOL!

  • @Foggymist399
    @Foggymist399 Před 5 lety +3

    Watching this as a woodpecker is working away in my tree

    • @jockejocke1
      @jockejocke1 Před 5 lety

      Me too, I can hear it outside just now. :)
      But it's a bit strange since it's currently about 6 PM, the woodpeckers around here are normally most active during about 6-10 AM.

  • @majidaattaplantscare4582

    So beautiful birds 😍😍

  • @Shsishsgsk
    @Shsishsgsk Před 3 lety

    Squirrel in a nutshell : *this is paradise on Earth*

  • @ariannavaldez85
    @ariannavaldez85 Před 9 lety +2

    This is very interesting.

  • @mylimegreenjeans
    @mylimegreenjeans Před 12 lety

    This is amazing

  • @TheMelvinWei
    @TheMelvinWei Před 8 lety

    I live close to there, we have so many acorn woodpeckers and other species living in riparian zones storing acorns in mostly California sycamore trees.

  • @Clouds660
    @Clouds660 Před rokem +1

    أنا أحبه ، شكرا نقار الخشب مثيرة جدا للاهتمام بارك الله فيك

    • @Clouds660
      @Clouds660 Před rokem

      English Translation:I love it thank woodpeckers are very interesting may god bless you

  • @NestorDiaz1975
    @NestorDiaz1975 Před 5 měsíci

    These birds wake me up in spring mornings in Spain 👍🏼😬

  • @marciabramson6194
    @marciabramson6194 Před 4 lety +5

    Wow. Amazing birds. Smart and highly independent.
    Love ❤ cardinals!

  • @Howlingburd19
    @Howlingburd19 Před 4 lety +3

    Let’s just hope we don’t drive any more Woodpeckers to extinction like we did to the Ivory Billed :(

    • @YoursAnimationhub
      @YoursAnimationhub Před 4 lety

      🦋🐌🦈🐡🐠🐟🐬🐋🦆🦅🕊🦉🐧🐦🐿🐤🐪🐘🦏🐝🐝💐🌸💮🏵🌹🥀🌺🌳🌱⚘🌷🌻🌴🌵🌾🌿☘🍀🍁 NEEDS PROTECTION.

    • @Ioganstone
      @Ioganstone Před rokem

      gone with hardly a BRRRAP BRRAP BRRAP

  • @irisignacio4377
    @irisignacio4377 Před 10 lety +43

    cute li'l creatures!!! ♥

  • @commacash
    @commacash Před 2 lety

    Take acorn from one tree. Store it another. Brilliant!

  • @chmsenp5282
    @chmsenp5282 Před 3 lety

    Awesome presentation

  • @aartyful
    @aartyful Před 3 lety +2

    "the nuts falling, help regenerate the oak trees' yes.. hazelnut makes oak tree

  • @mcmic1212
    @mcmic1212 Před 3 lety

    I learned so much. Wow, had no clue.

  • @buttercup9903
    @buttercup9903 Před 2 lety

    Love woodpeckers, red-bellied are my favorites

  • @hololivefan741
    @hololivefan741 Před 4 lety

    A big ol family of woody woodpeckers

  • @nerdburger234
    @nerdburger234 Před 5 lety

    2:15 When I catch somebody eating my leftovers...

  • @boelschenlaer
    @boelschenlaer Před 3 lety

    When I feel sad, I listen to the local woodpeckers.

  • @lulucita09
    @lulucita09 Před 12 lety +1

    Amazing!! like it

  • @entertaininformmedia7836

    Great video and lighting!! I videoed a couple, but a drizzly day.

  • @BrockLesnar2011
    @BrockLesnar2011 Před 4 lety +33

    Came here to learn more about Woodpeckers.
    1 min later left because of Trypophobia...
    Well done National Geographic.
    Well done.

    • @yoursonisold8743
      @yoursonisold8743 Před 4 lety +5

      Not their fault you have a super rare and nonsensical phobia.

    • @kriho02
      @kriho02 Před 4 lety +1

      @@yoursonisold8743 it's literally one of the most common phobias in existence

    • @yoursonisold8743
      @yoursonisold8743 Před 4 lety +1

      @@kriho02 Trypophobia? Are you serious right now? It is not even in the same ballpark as claustrophobia, arachnophobia and fear of heights or fear of needles. Don't make me laugh. You can walk into any given room and find at least 2 people who are afraid of the stuff I mentioned, but you would rarely find someone who has Trypophopbia.

    • @kriho02
      @kriho02 Před 4 lety +1

      Yourson Isold congrats, you mentioned the 4 maybe most common phobias out of the tens of thousands that exists and somehow that disqualifies trypophobia from also being common, u wot m8. And just because people are not aware of the phobia it doesnt mean its not there, lots and lots and lots of people go through their entire life having this phobia (either to a lesser or greater extent) without realising it

    • @yoursonisold8743
      @yoursonisold8743 Před 4 lety +1

      @@kriho02 I was giving some examples and I can give you a hundred more. Trypophobia is so far down the ladder that calling it "common" is plain ridiculous.
      "Not aware of the phobia"? Look, a phobia means you have very averse reactions to something. That is not something you can not notice. We are not talking about a basic dislike or mild discomfort of something, like thinking bugs as food is icky, we are talking straight up being *afraid* of something. Trypophobia, when it actually gets diagnosed, is a neraly crippling condition when met with holes or crevaces in things that shouldn't have them. That's not something you don't realize.
      It is a comparitvely rare phobia. Your claim that it's one of the most common ones simply holds no water whatsoever. And the fact that you had to dodge to "many people just dont know they have it" is a sign of your disingenious argumentation style.

  • @Lovely-yg7ie
    @Lovely-yg7ie Před 3 lety +1

    "If the fit isn't just right, I send it back"

  • @TamOBanterAndHisMagicDecanter

    Could never be me being a woodpecker. If my favourite food is in my mouth, brother, it is going down.

  •  Před 5 lety

    Beautiful nature life cycle😍

  • @gotbletu
    @gotbletu Před 12 lety

    That was nuts

  • @BAD_HERO14
    @BAD_HERO14 Před 2 měsíci

    Childhood memories

  • @cjames5985
    @cjames5985 Před rokem

    Amazing!!