Acorn Woodpeckers Can Store As Much As 50.000 Acorns in a Single Tree

Once the younglings mature into adults, they will stick around with their family for a couple of years to help out with the newborns. Eventually, they will fly off to look for a new family. Usually, they take the place of an adult that recently died. Acorn woodpeckers begin storing acorns for the colder winter months once autumn is right around the corner. All members of the family spend a lot of time collecting and hoarding acorns. They store the collected seeds in little holes drilled in a tree, called a granary tree. Any kind of tree will do, as long as it has a thick bark, but woodpeckers that live in suburban areas are more than comfortable drilling holes and storing their acorns in wooden poles as well.