Let's Show How Creative You are:- Drawing - Woodpecker

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INTRODUCTION

Hi dear steemians from Nigeria. Compliments of the season. How are you doing there? Another drawing contest is here. Oh, how I love drawing! Thank you @benton3 for this week's creative drawing, so I can express my drawing capacity. In this post, I will draw woodpecker and also tell you significant facts about this animal. Stay tune, let's begin.

My Steps in Drawing a Woodpecker

Step 1: As usual before I begin, all my drawing items must be available. I got my pencil, eraser, drawing paper, crayons ready.

My drawing materials

Step 2: I started drawing my woodpecker from the long beak. I drew from the beak to the left, down to the neck and then I curved back to the upper abdomen to the first leg. This was to me, an easy way to start.

The head, abdomen and leg

Step 3: In step 3, I drew the whole body: the feathers, the tail, the othe leg and the claws with the eyes.

The whole body of a woodpecker

Step 4: Here, I use my grayon and insert the red colour on the head and also shade the feathers and the tail. I inserted with black grayon, black colour on the part of the neck to make my work look beautiful. My woodpecker is complete.

Woodpecker

As the name implies, woodpecker is a small bird that pecks wood. It belongs to the family of small birds called picidae. Woodpecker is an arboreal animal which makes holes in the bark of trees to get small insects for food. This kind of bird comes in different sizes and colours.

Facts About Woodpeckers and what makes them unique.

*Woodpeckers sing so much. Male type can sing more than 500 times a day just to attract a female.

*Woodpeckers can live up to eleven years.

*They incubate eggs for more than 10 days.

Characteristics of Woodpeckers

*Woodpeckers' nostrils are covered with feathers to prevent wood particles from entering their nostrils.

*Woodpeckers have four toes feet with sharp pointed claws; two pointed to the front and two to the back.

*They can peck up to more than 20 times per second

*They have a sticky tongues that are up to 11cm long.

*Woodpeckers lay three sets of eggs per year.

Habitat

Woodpeckers live in the forest. Some live in the woodlands where there are trees. Only a few live outside forest areas. They sometimes form their nest in the tree hole they bore and live there.

Uses of Woodpeckers to Man

Though, they destroy trees by boring hole, woodpeckers have remarkable role they play in the ecosystem. *Woodpeckers contribute to ecosystem by providing nesting for other animals to live .

*Woodpeckers remove insect pests from farmers' economic tree like cotton, cocoa, etc.

*They help in the pollination of flowers. Without pollination, plants production won't be completed.

*Woodpeckers also ward off squirrels that destroy farmers' crops.

Let me invite my steemians: @nsisong2022, @destinedhanik, and @eno-obong to join in this contest.

Thank you for reading my post.
@okokon