They eat insects. They spear their food or peck holes in trees. It uses it to get nectar from flowers. These birds walk or wade more than they fly. Birds with small, thin legs perch in trees or bushes.
Most birds have four toes, three that face forward and one rearward.
Birds that have two toes facing forward and two toes facing rearward usually hang onto the sides of trees. These birds spend a lot of their time flying, often darting and dodging about after insects. The birds also fly a lot but they do more gliding than dodging. These birds spend as much time perching as flying. Color You can see that by taking the time to carefully observe birds you can tell a lot about them without even knowing what kind they are.