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Each wooden woodpecker sculpture is lovingly carved from a custom-selected bit of recycled timber to provide its own unique grain pattern and character. As each one is custom carved and mounted onto a section of gum branch and as such, they are all slightly different in shape and size. The utmost effort has been put in to sustainably source all of the materials used to ensure the most gentle of footprints.
Dimensions – Height: 320mm; Width: 200mm; Depth: 60mm
Wood – Totara and Gum
The timber used for this bird has an interesting history. It comes from the totara tree which is very tricky source as it’s no longer being logged. That’s good news for this native as there are not many adult trees left.
I was lucky enough to find a pile of large beams buried away in a reclamation yard in Christchurch. Having snapped them up I did some research and it turned out that the beams spent most of their life as a church roof. Unfortunately, due to the devastation of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, the church had to be pulled down. It is a sad tale but I’m happy to be giving the timber a revived purpose in life and I hope that in its new home it will be appreciated for many more years to come.
Finished in tung oil then beeswax.
Please not that each one of these wooden woodpecker sculptures is totally individual and has its own unique grain finish. Feel free to equire to see what’s in stock and choose the exact wooden bell bird sculpture that’s right for you.
Woodpeckers are part of the family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. Most species live in forests or woodland habitats, although a few species are known that live in treeless areas, such as rocky hillsides and deserts, and the Gila woodpecker specialises in exploiting cacti.
Members of this family are chiefly known for their characteristic behaviour. They mostly forage for insect prey on the trunks and branches of trees, and often communicate by drumming with their beaks, producing a reverberatory sound that can be heard at some distance. Some species vary their diet with fruits, birds’ eggs, small animals, tree sap, human scraps, and carrion. They usually nest and roost in holes that they excavate in tree trunks, and their abandoned holes are of importance to other cavity-nesting birds. They sometimes come into conflict with humans when they make holes in buildings or feed on fruit crops, but perform a useful service by their removal of insect pests on trees.
The Picidae are one of nine living families in the order Piciformes, the others being barbets (comprising three families), toucans, toucan-barbets, and honeyguides, which (along with woodpeckers) comprise the clade Pici, and the jacamars and puffbirds in the clade Galbuli. DNA sequencing has confirmed the sister relationships of these two groups. The family Picidae includes about 240 species arranged in 35 genera. Almost 20 species are threatened with extinction due to loss of habitat or habitat fragmentation, with one, the Bermuda flicker, being extinct and a further two possibly being so.
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