Definitionn. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Last update: October 29, 2015
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A woodpecker is pecking wood. [Please select]
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Prominent among a great variety of song-birds and insectivorous birds are the robin, blue bird, cat bird, sparrows, meadow-lark, bobolink, thrushes, chickadee, wrens, brown thrasher, gold finch, cedar wax-wing, flycatchers, nuthatches, flicker (golden-winged woodpecker), downy and hairy woodpeckers, rose-breasted grosbeak, Baltimore oriole, barnswallow, chimney swift, purple martin, purple finch (linnet), vireos and several species of warblers. [Please select]
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"It was such very dirty work," piped the Woodpecker crossly; "I was afraid of spoiling my pretty bright coat and my silver shining hose." [Please select]
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You shall become a Woodpecker, and it shall be your task to hunt, hunt for the insects which hide away so slyly at your approach. [Please select]
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He heard Drummer the Woodpecker at work drilling after worms in a tree not far away. [Please select]
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The other day I saw a yellow-bellied woodpecker alight upon a decaying beech and proceed to drill for a grub. [Please select]
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It is the nuthatch and not the woodpecker that hops up and down and around the trees. [Please select]
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