JasperFrank
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It is doing damage to my house. Should I just shoot it and kill it?
Shooting a Woodpecker.
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groundcover
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Had to do that once, it just wouldn't take good advice !
riptides
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Most are protected species.
groundcover
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And when they start to destroy a house they are endangered!
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You have to be smarter than the woodpecker...just shooting animals is taking the dumb way out...!
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If you have a solution besides not using wood building products I’m all ears.
He's kinda hard to kill if I remember the cartoons correctly. 
en.m.wikipedia.org
Woody Woodpecker - Wikipedia
/pine
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There's always a solution...
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Have you tried the plastic owl?
AWSubie
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The easiest non-kill solution is to staple up some bird netting so they can’t get to the area that they’re pecking on.