The tapping of woodpeckers in trees is similar to birdsong and human speech.

It’s not just bird song that is similar to human speech. Recent research shows that so does the distinctive tapping of woodpeckers. What messages do they convey this way?

[Photo by Dariusz Grosa from Pexels]

Anyone who has heard the distinctive clucking of woodpeckers knows that it is different from the sounds made by other birds. It is a loud rattling noise that we tend…