Show habits of the he woodpecker the redheaded red headed woodpecker feeds almost exclusively off insects and grubs burrowed in wood and chisels out homes in trees and poles nature Is bountiful in equipping woodpeckers their beaks are hard as steel keen as razors they have long toes to grip precarious surfaces their tails are spiked for support as well as balance even their tongues are cylindrical pointed and barbed so so they can scrape food from small holes generally farmers are down on the redheaded red headed species it sometimes augments its insect diet with eggs corn from ears growing in fields brains of young fowl which it scoops out after splitting the unfortunate nate chicks head |