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Woodpecker Versus Snake

submitted by lucky760

1 decade 5 years 1 month ago

Nature

Wow, Woody the Woodpecker and some kind of a beefy snake battle over the woodpecker's eggs in its tree-hole nest. I have no idea how that snake climbed up the smooth tree, but it fights the bird with ferocity.

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12 Comments

Ahhhh, Totally leave us hanging...
Up-vote for good timing though. Great amateur footage.

Olive whipsnake, chironious fuscus
The Woodpecker is: Crimson crested woodpecker

and someone save that woodpecker!~ seriously you are just standing there

Sometimes you just need to know when you are beat and walk away to fight another day....

ant

What happened then? Woodpecker lost?

According to a comment here: "The Olive Whipsnake of South America is a member of the family Coulibridae - a large family of non-venomous snakes that includes more familiar species like corn snakes, garter snakes, gopher snakes, and most of the other small non-venomous snakes."

If that's true, the bird wouldn't have died from any venom in the bites, so as long as it didn't receive any major physical injuries it was probably ok. It's offspring were probably lunch though.

Great video!

Bruti79 says...

This may be a reach, but it looks like *eia

Snake either got the eggs, or the wood pecker fought off the snake.

Invocations (eia) cannot be called by Bruti79 because Bruti79 is not privileged - sorry.

I think I saw one of these in a can of peanut brittle once.

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