granary tree

Definitions

1. 1

   A tree used by acorn woodpeckers to store acorns.

   • If the acorn is to be stored rather than eaten, the bird brings it to the granary tree and drives it into a vacant storage hole.
   • One granary tree can have up to 50,000 holes in it, each holding a single acorn. In parts of its range the acorn woodpecker does not construct a granary tree, but instead stores acorns in natural holes and cracks in bark.
   • These three birds are at a “granary tree” or “nut pole,” where there are many stored acorns, but no grain, despite the name.

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