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Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) video
A lateral view of an adult mandibulating a wasp that it caught out of the air to remove the stinger and venom sac, finally removes and tosses it aside, shown by stop motion and arrow, eats the wasp and then flys away.
- Recorded 4 November 2009
- Added to IBC 2 years 29 weeks ago
- Don DesJardin
- Location Santa Barbara County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species).
- Duration 39 sec
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At 00:15 if you look carefully, you can see it toss the stinger and venom sac off to its left, shown in a freeze frame.