Each full-color book features 30 beautiful photographs of animals from around the world, along with a page of facts and commentary about each creature. There are about 200 species of true woodpeckers, spread over the wooded parts of the world, except Madagascar, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and surrounding islands. The woodpecker is very specially constructed, exhibiting design and purpose. So unique is the woodpecker that it is difficult to accept that it is the product of purposeless evolutionary forces. In fact, study the woodpecker carefully and you find evidence that points to its being wonderfully designed by God the Creator.
Woodpeckers spend most of their time spiralling up tree trunks searching for insects.
When a woodpecker has searched one tree it flies to the base of the next and repeats the operation. Its ability to climb vertical trunks and to maintain its position while pecking the tree is because it has been designed with two backward-facing toes and an associated arrangement of tendons and leg muscles, sharp claws, and stiff tail feathers tipped with spines which are used as a prop while climbing. It also has exceptionally strong flight. Because of the energy they expend, woodpeckers are very hungry birds. This seemingly insatiable appetite has a purpose, for woodpeckers are valuable in the control of insects, even helping to limit the spread of tree diseases, such as Dutch elm disease, by destroying insect carriers.