Lorna Gibson

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Something You Should Know · Has Therapy Gone Too Far? & The Hidden Genius of Birds · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

So some of them are.

One of my favorite social birds is the acorn woodpecker.

They tend to

hang out in social groups of, you know, maybe 12, 15 birds.

And they do this routine where they store acorns.

They're called acorn woodpeckers because they eat acorns.

But what they do is they find a rotted tree and they peck a hole in the tree and they'll hammer an acorn into that.

And the thing that's amazing is it's not one or two acorns we're talking.

We're talking tens of thousands of acorns.

So these social groups of, you know, maybe a dozen, maybe 15 acorn woodpeckers will, you know, pick out

sort of decaying tree trunk, and they will just hammer acorns into these little holes that they've drilled over and over and over again.

So they've got these amazing kind of way of storing their food, but it's for the whole group of them.

Well, there's certainly a lot of concern about birds declining.

There's been a remarkable decrease in the number of birds over the last, say, 50 years.

It's something that conservation groups work on to try to preserve habitat

There's lots of reasons for this.

I mean, one is the loss of habitat means that the birds can't function, can't breed.

But there's other things too, you know, even having like domestic cats, like your pet cat that goes outside, you know, once in a while and you think it catches a bird.

If you look at the whole country, the cats are killing millions of birds.

It's not just the odd bird.

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