• ylph@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Some species of birds, like Robins for example, walk around with their head cocked like this near the ground to hear worms chewing through the soil, and then pluck them out to eat.

    But instead of worms, it’s miners (not sure if tiny, or bird huge :)

    • charade_you_are
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      15 hours ago

      I just read that the woodpecker called a flicker mostly eats ants out of the ground instead of eating a lot shit out of a tree like you would expect. That’s what I thought about looking at this one