15 Amazing Facts About 15 Birds

A common raven looking pretty pleased with itself.
A common raven looking pretty pleased with itself. / Andreas Saatze-Stein/500px/Getty Images
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12. Acorn woodpeckers are hoarders.

An acorn woodpecker and its hoard of acorns.
An acorn woodpecker and its hoard of acorns. / Alice Cahill/Moment Open/Getty Images

Acorn woodpeckers store acorns by drilling holes in trees, fence posts, utility poles, and buildings and depositing massive numbers of nuts. They have been known to store up to 50,000 acorns—each in its own tiny hole—in a single tree, called a “granary tree.”