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Tracking Challenge Two - A pile of wood chips.
Clues: This was found after a fresh snow. It's a huge pile of woodchips at the bottom of an old dead tree. Any ideas of what this might be?
Here we're looking further up the tree. Somebody's been at work!
Now we're looking up close. Look at those strange markings in the wood! Find the solution below this picture!
Solution: This is the work of a woodpecker, and she was quite busy since she made that whole pile of woodchips in only a few hours (that’s when the last snow stopped falling). By the size and shape of the pecking, we can tell that it was a Pileated Woodpecker – the largest of all woodpeckers (unless we discover that the Ivory Billed woodpecker isn’t extinct after all). The Pileated will leave large, squarish or rectangular holes in the sides of trees, and its loud pecking and laughing call are very distinctive. You can also learn to recognize it by its flight pattern.
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