The Evolution of the Woodpecker

An observation about the long-tonged woodpecker. It is known that this woodpecker has four distinguishing features that allow it to survive. They are: 1)Sharp talons for holding onto a tree, 2) A long, pointed, strong beak for piercing wood and reaching insects inside the tree, 3) An extremely long tongue for reaching insects, and 4) A membrane around their brain that keeps it from splattering against their skull when they are repeatedly pecking at a tree.

So my question to those who believe in macro evolution is this: How did the woodpecker evolve? All of these traits are needed for its survival, and take any one of these away, and you take the bird away. I think this is an excellent example of intelligent design. Now, there are many websites dedicated to disproving the thought that a Creator formed the woodpecker for a purpose. Some claim that us creationists have got it wrong in the way we describe the exact anatomy of the woodpecker's tongue, and therefore there must be no creator since somebody did not do their proper research before writing an article (kind of a large jump in their conclusion if you ask me). Others state that not all woodpeckers, such as the Sapsucker, have extremely long tongues. But the sapsucker feeds off the sap that oozes out of the hole it just bore in a tree. Does it need an extremely long tongue? Heck no...because the sap comes to it once it bores a hole in the tree. Yet, because of this micro evolutionary trait in this species, many natural evolutionists say that there can be no Creator because the sapsucker does not have a long tongue as do many other woodpeckers. This also seems to implicitly state that a Creator would only create the exact same kind of every species and is not clever enough to create variations. (Ex. This train of thought would state that a Creator would always create an orange tiger with black and white stripes and nothing else, no Siberian tigers or anything like that, just orange ones with black and white stripes).

Yet, regardless of what type of woodpecker we consider, we must remember that these birds are still woodpeckers, designed with different physical characteristics that allow their survival. If it evolved from something like a hummingbird, which also has a long beak, how would it do so since the hummingbird is missing the other three essential traits that most woodpeckers need to survive?