Woodpeckers 101

Woodpeckers 101

Description

Come join Nancy Barbachano and learn all about woodpeckers. We'll learn about the different species of woodpeckers in our area, their natural history. We'll also learn about how to rehabilitate them from hatchling to nestling to fledgling to release.

January 15, 2022 at 1 pm

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Speaker Bio

Nancy Barbachano

Nancy Barbachano has been a wild bird rehabilitator for over 20 years. She volunteers with Wildlife Care Association, Gold Country Wildlife Rescue, Sierra Wildlife Rescue, Tri-County and Wildlife Rehab and Release. She has served as Secretary for the Board of Directors of the California Council for Wildlife Rehabilitators.

Nancy specializes in woodpeckers, hummingbirds and songbirds. She has worked with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology since 2007 to determine whether or not Acorn Woodpecker babies can be released back into the wild into an existing colony. She is the co-author of the woodpecker section of the book Hand-Rearing Birds by Dr. Rebecca Duerr and Laurie Gage. She also teaches various rehabilitation classes about bird rehabilitation both locally, statewide and nationwide.

From the class

Recording

  • Woodpeckers 101 presented by Nancy Barbachano

    • If you would like continuing education for this class, please watch the video and send me 5 questions that could be used for a quiz along with the timestamp for the information the question is based on.

Resources/References

  • Backhouse, Frances. Woodpeckers of North America, Firefly Books Ltd, 2005

  • Koenig, Wlater D. and Mumme, Ronald L. Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1987.

  • Gate, Laurie J., DVM and Duerr, Rebecca S., DVM, Hand-Rearing Birds, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.

  • www.birds.cornell.edu

  • www.jacissel.net

  • Hardware cloth-galvanized half to quarter inch mesh

Suet Recipe from Nancy Barbachano

1 cup crunchy peanut butter

1/4 cup smooth peanut butter

1 cup lard (no substitution)

2 cups "quick cook" oats

2 cups cornmeal

1 cup white flour

1/3 cup sugar

Melt the lard and peanut butter. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Pour the mixture into square freezer containers about 1 1/2 inches thick. Allow it to cool. Cut into cakes and store in the freezer.

Contact

Jean Yim, Wildlife Rehabilitation Training Coordinator, jyim@lindsaywildlife.org