How To Use Pecker In A Sentence
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Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning.
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Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill.
The Firing Line
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Chickadees, crossbills, goldfinches, nuthatches, siskins, and woodpeckers pick the winged seeds out of pine and spruce cones.
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It's going to boil down to keeping your pecker up, looking on the best side of things.
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The mikko descended wooden stairs from his steep-roofed palace, its ridgepole adorned with sculptures of ivory-billed woodpeckers.
Fire The Sky
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A greater-spotted woodpecker zooms in on a telegraph pole on the lane.
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The only thing I seize is my pecker when I’m sitting at the computer.
Matthew Yglesias » Luce & Machiavelli on Leadership
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Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
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Unthinking obedience to a line of bullshit because your pecker is so small you have to make up for it in other ways.
Think Progress » EXCLUSIVE: Majority Leader Boehner’s Confidential Strategy Memo For Thursday’s Iraq Debate
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Compare this bird with the golden-fronted woodpecker that has yellow on the forehead and back of the neck; the red-headed woodpecker that has an all-red head and neck, and the ladder-backed woodpecker that has a black-and-white striped head.
Mystery bird: red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus
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We went driving in the country on Sunday afternoons to look for some of the birds that were special to us: bluebirds, goldfinches, pileated and red-headed woodpeckers, and, most thrilling of all, painted buntings.
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Down in the canyon, I often see the house wren, acorn and Nuttall's woodpeckers, wrentit, and, in winter, the yellow-rumped warbler.
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Downy Woodpeckers form monogamous breeding pairs in late winter.
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Never mind, a long-since abandoned unofficial page for the Magyar Borsodi League links straight to a Hungarian recipe for goose liver cooked in paprika - just the thing to keep your pecker up on a parky afternoon at Haladas Szombathely.
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Be on the lookout for Caribbean dove, West Indian woodpecker, Cuban bullfinch, and smooth-billed ani.
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Mrs. Knap enjoyed birdwatching around her home and was especially fond of seeing cardinals in the snow and pileated woodpeckers.
Eleanore K. Knap, college employee
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Green woodpeckers also live on the reserve, but give out a loud, laughing call, or 'yaffle'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your woodpeckers, chickadees and wrens will repay you for keeping a supply of suet on hand by bringing their babies - your next generation of customers - by for a treat.
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Likewise, trunks for foraging woodpeckers and vegetational structures for dead-leaf foraging antbirds are found throughout the midstory, often extending into the understory and canopy.
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Not only is the Cape flush with cardinals, towhees, mockingbirds, catbirds, goldfinches and woodpeckers, its birds of the shore entice many a visitor here.
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For example, ground birds can usually only walk horizontally on the ground whereas woodpeckers climb up and down vertically on tree trunks.
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A woodpecker had himself a nice fat acorn, and he was hard at work to crack it open.
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On the lake itself, we mainly saw the same woodpeckers, gulls, goldfinch, robins, waxwings, juncos, and other common birds spotted last year.
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He also found that as Pileated Woodpeckers fly away from the camera, their plumage is hard to distinguish from the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's.
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Stingless bees can mummify invading beetles in resin scientists have found that stingless bees are not easy targets for predators, as they can mummify invading parasitic beetles in The Salt Lake TribuneUpdated: 12/21/2009 12: 27: 04 PM MST Downy woodpecker by Paul Higgins Picoides pubescens The downy is the smallest and most widespread of American
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A woodpecker called loudly in the beech wood; a "wish-wish" in the air overhead was caused by the swift motion of a wood-pigeon passing from "holt" to "hurst," from copse to copse.
The Life of the Fields
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The Ivory Billed Woodpecker lives on, found by a man canoeing alone in the backwaters.
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In fall you'll see Northern flickers, herons, kingfishers, downy woodpeckers, and lots of ducks (common goldeneyes, mallards, mergansers).
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But are not enough to stand on the trees . A woodpecker needs help from its tail.
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a rattle, what a yaffle — as they call the woodpecker, the laughing bird that flits from tree to tree.
Between the Acts
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Visitors will be attuned to the ‘music’ of the swamp with the calls of woodpeckers, barred owls and limpkins along the ‘On the Boardwalk’ exhibit.
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The largest of the three species of wood pecker found in Britain, Green Woodpeckers are also easily recognized by their laughing ‘yaffle’ call.
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Although their diet includes some acorns and beechnuts in the fall, pileated woodpeckers eat mostly ants, flying insects, grubs, and some seeds and fruits.
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Unlike most woodpeckers, flickers spend a lot of time on the ground probing for ants.
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Besides a Downy Woodpecker here and a Tufted Titmouse there, avifauna was all but absent.
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Is an oxpecker a parasite or a helpful scavenger - your basic feathered cleaner wrasse?
The evolution of vampires
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The rice was then cut with the sickle and carried in on the head, then threshed with the flail, then milled and dressed, in some cases wholly by human labor, and in others by a rude machine, called a pecker mill.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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A small woodpecker flew into a tree above me, and when I saw its slender profile and long bill, I thought it must be a sapsucker.
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Today, the references tell us that in many English country dialects, from Yorkshire south to Kent and west to Devon, the green woodpecker was called a yaffle.
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They also will use an old woodpecker or other hole or even hollows in the earth beneath exposed tree roots.
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Atter dat Tenie sot a sparrer-hawk fer ter watch de tree; en w'en de woodpecker come erlong nex 'mawnin' fer ter finish his nes ', he got gobble' up mos 'fo' he stuck his bill in de bark.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
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On the island itself, titmice, chickadees, pewees, and at least one Red-bellied Woodpecker thrived.
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Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost.
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The fire-breasted flower-pecker (_Dicæum ignipectus_) is perhaps the smallest bird in India.
Birds of the Indian Hills
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You are a coward. Hi , Woodpecker, would you like to a picnic with me?
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Smallest woodpecker (sparrow sized) and often elusive preferring the tops of trees.
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In Massachusetts winter residents include chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers, titmice, cardinals, and mockingbirds.
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There were calls of Sunbirds, flowerpeckers, Ioras, drongos, minivets.
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Some of those species include bluebirds, robins, titmice, chickadees, nuthatches, wrens, tree and barn swallows, purple martins, owls, flycatchers, and woodpeckers.
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The North American Gila Woodpecker excavates a living space within saguaro cacti.
Photo-Op: Nest Fest
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Birds present include the bulbuls, babblers, barbets, kingfishers, shamas, drongos, pigeons, woodpeckers and tailorbirds.
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And even if it was it never got the pecker long enough to get a good envenomation.
Woodpecker vs. Snake
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The tongue of a young woodpecker is barbless.
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New birds will come thick and fast - woodpeckers, kingfishers, barbets, tinkerbirds, widows, cisticolas, apalis and prinias, crombecs, various sparrows and canaries.
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
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In addition to combing trees for beetle larvae and ants, these woodpeckers also eat the fruits of southern bayberry, magnolias, wild grape, poison-ivy, pokeberry, blueberry, cherries, blackgum, and pecan.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
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The avian family Picidae includes the woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks.
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True, Esther had bashed him with a cook pot, but one great advantage in having a peckerwood crackbrain on your side was the fact that his motivations had nothing to do with rationality.
Rain Gods
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Carolina wrens, tufted titmice, and red-bellied woodpeckers are other relative newcomers to our area.
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Use suet or specialty suet cakes with added berries or peanuts to attract woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice, Carolina wrens and wintering warblers.
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He hid near nests of black woodpeckers, kingfishers, northern hazel hens and Eurasian sparrow hawks.
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Insects, especially beetles and ants, are the main food of Downy Woodpeckers.
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The birding world is buzzing (or more aptly, chirping) with the news announced yesterday that a new species of bird, the spectacled flowerpecker, may have been found in
WN.com - Articles related to Tiger tourism and tiger conservation are Varty's mission at South Africa's Tiger Canyons (Part 2)
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If you have an old, dead tree in your garden, woodpeckers, nuthatches, and chickadees may seek out your yard to look for food and build their houses.
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This smart picture book about animal symbiosis features five illustrations on its opening spread, each paired up with a question such as "Why does a giraffe let an oxpecker climb into its ear?" or "Why does a plover stroll into a crocodile's mouth?
For young readers: ÂHow to Clean a Hippopotamus'
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Among the 102 species of birds are spotted eagle Aquila clanga (VU), golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, hazel grouse Bonasa bonasia, eagle owl Bubo bubo, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, three-toed woodpecker Picoides trydactilus and Alpine chough Pyrrhocorax graculus.
Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
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For every obvious crossbill, razorbill, greenfinch, woodpecker, warbler, treecreeper, swift or flycatcher there is a mysterious wigeon, garganey, gadwall, bittern, siskin, pipit, shrike or twite.
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After watching that video I'm glad woodpeckers (except for those giant pileated woodpeckers and the maybe-present-maybe-extinct ivory-billed) are relatively wee little birds.
Woodpecker vs. Snake
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Thus, in woodpeckers it is hard and strong, as also in crows and birds of crowlike habit, while in the smaller birds it is delicate, so as to be of use in collecting seeds and picking up minute animals.
On the Parts of Animals
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We also saw the usual variety of gulls, raptors, woodpeckers, and passerines throughout the morning.
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Mexico is home to toucans, vultures, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, parrots, macaws, and quetzals.
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From above, as I watched the tits depart, came a soft drumming on a dead trunk – a female lesser spotted woodpecker, little bigger than a nuthatch.
Country diary: Hay-on-Wye
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Billy," he called angrily, "you got to come in here and hold this old chicken; she's 'bout the terriblest pecker they is.
Miss Minerva and William Green Hill
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T R L Says: yeah rite yoo I bet you were gettin that veinna sausage you call a pecker a chubby writeing that bullshyt zuch Says:
Think Progress
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Over the front door is a large ceramic woodpecker, a 'yaffle' in the local dialect, hence the property's name.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has spotted fresh buffalo spoor followed by a flock of alarmed oxpecker birds taking flight.
Same Sun and Moon: My guide through the African bush
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In the deciduous woods, 10 to 17 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker breeding territories were established annually.
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
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Like American Three-toed Woodpeckers, they have three rather than four toes on each foot.
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We also saw the usual variety of gulls, raptors, woodpeckers, and passerines throughout the morning.
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The reserve is home to woodpeckers, chaffinches, bullfinches and blackbirds.
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Washington is at the extreme northern edge of the breeding range of the Acorn Woodpecker.
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They are cavity-nesters, finding a natural hollow in a tree, an old woodpecker hole, a hole in a building, or a man-made nest box.
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The reserve is home to woodpeckers, chaffinches, bullfinches and blackbirds.
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Such, for instance, is the case with the hen kingfisher, which is one of the brightest of British birds and one of the very few which make their nests underground; the hen woodpecker, which is also gaily colored and builds in hollow trees, forms a second instance.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
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Compare this bird with the red-headed woodpecker that has a black back, and large white patches on the wings, and the hairy and downy woodpeckers that have a long white stripe down the middle of the back.
Mystery bird: red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus
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The fruits are red, blue, or black and are quickly consumed in late summer and early fall by finches, game birds, mockingbirds, thrushes, waxwings, and woodpeckers.
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Bird lovers will enjoy the more than 92 recorded South African bird species manifested and to be viewed in the park including ostriches, black eagles, spotted dikkops and ground woodpeckers.
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While we don't have tall trees, our neighbors do, and the firs and oaks that surround our property drop acorns and provide homes for jays, woodpeckers, robins and sparrows.
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A cuckoo called from faraway, a greater spotted woodpecker hammered out an urgent tattoo.
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Since then, birding luminaries and legendary enthusiasts have sacrificed huge chunks of their lives to catch the merest glimpse of the wondrous woodpecker.
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My earliest diary records watching great spotted woodpeckers displaying.
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Archive 2008-12-01
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He mentioned a half-dozen species, including the yellowheaded weaver, the rosy barbet, and the Javanese three-toed woodpecker.
The Song of The Dodo
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Labels: ivorybill woodpecker posted by Chad Arment @ 5: 30 PM
Ivorybill Not Forgotten
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For a moment they could see it clinging to the flume like a woodpecker clinging to a tree trunk.
A TIME OF WAR
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Plenty of birds of winter still mob Ann's bird feeders; chickadees, juncos, sparrows, woodpeckers, nuthatches, goldfinch, and doves are in no short supply.
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Chickadees, crossbills, goldfinches, nuthatches, siskins, and woodpeckers pick the winged seeds out of pine and spruce cones.
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Mr Deacon says that far from damaging wildlife, the lake and wetlands already attract kingfishers, mallards, woodpeckers, coots, waterhens, curlews, plovers, deer and foxes.
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Her legs were spread wide to accommodate him, and his pecker slid into her like a warm spoon into thick cream.
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Black Wood pecker which is found in most parts of the rocky Mountains as will as the Western and S W. mountains, I had never an oppertunity of examineing, untill a fiew days Since when we killed and preserved
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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The garden also offers another type of healing that is not physical, but spiritual, which is perhaps the greatest harvest of all: A hard day spent quietly weeding provides an opportunity to pull out weedy thoughts so productive ones can flourish; a morning spent sitting quietly and watching chipmunks and woodpeckers do their business can teach us about the joyfulness of work.
Maria Rodale: A Harvest of Healing
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Downy Woodpeckers piped softly in the woods, and a flicker yelped once or twice.
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If you want to lure woodpeckers, hummingbirds, or orioles to your yard, invest in specialized feeders.
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What do you get if you cross a carrier pigeon with a woodpecker?
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Long-billed dowitcher and northern hairy woodpecker.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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Birds that have been observed to make incisions for sap include the North American sapsuckers and other woodpeckers including Acorn Woodpecker, White-fronted Woodpecker, and various European and Asian species.
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Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits.
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On Cebu, the recent rediscovery of several of the islands 'presumed-extinct species (most famously the Cebu flowerpecker), has focused community conservation activities by the Cebu Biodiversity Conservation Foundation on protecting the island's last few hectares of forest.
Biological diversity in the Philippines
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I wondered if it had been a flowerpecker, but I was almost certain the head was entirely red, and the back wasn't the dark, flat blue of a flowerpecker.
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So I've never been quite convinced that there wasn't some kind of early, dirty meaning of "pecker" that he might have been aware of.
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On the lake itself, we mainly saw the same woodpeckers, gulls, goldfinch, robins, waxwings, juncos, and other common birds spotted last year.
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On the same trip to Spain we also caught up with two other birds I most desperately wanted to see: the ring ouzel, another thrush with a restricted range, and the wryneck, a strange-looking and behaving woodpecker.
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He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed henpeckery.
Oliver Twist
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For a moment they could see it clinging to the flume like a woodpecker clinging to a tree trunk.
A TIME OF WAR
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One of the most strongly migratory woodpeckers, the Red-naped Sapsucker travels as far south as central Mexico for the winter.
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Even more salutary was the case of the four-coloured flowerpecker, thought to be extinct on the grounds that the Philippine island of Cebu, its only habitat, had been deforested.
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The moment his eyes fell upon madam of the fluffy hair, he burst out with a loud, rapid woodpecker "chitter," gradually growing higher in key and louder in tone.
A Bird-Lover in the West
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Throughout Europe today the woodpecker is variously called Rain Bird, Rain Fowl and Rain Pie.
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Hairy Woodpeckers forage primarily on the trunks or main limbs of trees, where they probe into crevices and scale off bark searching for prey.
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He can talk of sausages and silkworms, and forestry and agriculture and sheep-grazing, and how they catch porcupines and cure warts and manufacture manna; he knows about the evil eye and witches and the fata morgana and the tarantula spider, about figs in ancient and modern times and the fig-pecker bird -- that bird you eat bones and all, the focetola or beccafico (garden warbler).
Alone
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Birds sang more clearly now, and woodpeckers pecked with more zest than they had heard the night before.
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Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified);
How to get back to nature when camping
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Most of the other endemics are found in the mainland coastal forest of Kenya and Tanzania, including the yellow flycatcher (Erythrocercus holochlorus), Sokoke pipit (Anthus sokokensis, EN), Clarke's weaver (Ploceus golandi, EN), and Mombasa woodpecker (Campethera mombassica).
Biological diversity in the coastal forests of Eastern Africa
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Additionally, for the students, the potential stress of working with a new material or in a new technique is counterbalanced by the undiluted fun of trying to create a beaked bull or a jewel-encrusted woodpecker.
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There are many species of woodpeckers, but only two wrynecks, worldwide, but only three woodpeckers and one wryneck (a rare migrant) in the UK.
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From Arkansas, ongoing searches in alleged ivorybill woodpecker territory ...
Archive 2008-12-01
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In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker tanager, bush shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days’ active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.
The Malay Archipelago
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Chickadees, tufted titmice, blue jays, cardinals, sparrows, juncos and red-headed woodpeckers all come to feast on the scrumptious mixture of seeds, nuts and cracked corn I put out for them.
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Then of course there were redbilled oxpeckers riding a white rhino and de-ticking as only oxpeckers know how.
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Use suet or specialty suet cakes with added berries or peanuts to attract woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice, Carolina wrens and wintering warblers.
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However, only terrestrial species have been tested, such as barn swallows, tree swallows, dunnocks, alpine accentors, and acorn woodpeckers.
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As if to oblige and spare me needless treebranch-scanning, the red-headed woodpecker swung into view after a mere minute or two and alighted photogenically in a tall, bare branch.
Woodpeckers I Have Known: James Wolcott
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There is a paroquet with purple feathers, another with scarlet, a woodpecker with variegated plumage of red, green, and yellow, and a small black bird with a single yellow feather under each wing.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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It lived up to its reputation with violaceous trogon, cinnamon and other woodpeckers, woodcreepers, antwrens, antbirds, antshrikes, purple-throated fruit-crows, wrens and flycatchers.
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The resort habitat covers orchard, meadow, forest edge, broadleaf and riparian habitats which attract many different species from black and white owls, sungrebes, herons and kingfishers on the river to oropendolas, woodpeckers and orioles in the orchard.
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There was the occasional chatter of magpies or jays, and once the bobbing flight of a greater spotted woodpecker.
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The 1987 champion berry, a woodpecker, weighed in at 28 drams 4 grains; not a record breaker this time.
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According to Britannica.com this arrangement is called zygodactyl and is typical of parrots, woodpeckers, cuckoos and a few other kinds.
New Archaeopteryx fossil provides further insight into bird, dinosaur evolution - The Panda's Thumb
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These once common farmland birds, along with many others, including the meadow pipit, lesser spotted woodpecker and nutcracker, are now at their lowest levels across Europe since records began, according to a survey.
Europe's farmland birds on decline
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But the existence of the woodpecker, definitively seen since the 1940 s , remains highly disputed.
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Thats like saying your 308 is just like schumachers f1 car… get a freaking grip rooster boy… and keep yer pecker up
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Cedar waxwings, crows, finches, flycatchers, grosbeaks, grouse, jays, mockingbirds, pheasants, thrushes, vireos, and woodpeckers feed on their fruits.
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Behind the hill, behind the trees, the green woodpecker – the yaffle – shouts his mocking, laugh-like call which in country weather lore is a sure sign of rain.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Just as later he would return to listing woodpeckers, hawks and wild flowers in Carolina, he is obsessed by Whitman-like lists of fauna: lookdowns, triggerfish, halfbeaks, hairtails, blackbacks, mossbunkers and quahogs.
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However, only terrestrial species have been tested, such as barn swallows, tree swallows, dunnocks, alpine accentors, and acorn woodpeckers.
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A male great spotted wood-pecker has made regular early morning visits to a nearby towering beech.
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More recently, Mayr et al. (2003) found Leptosomus to group with frogmouths in the 'nightbird' + apodiform clade, Ericson et al. (2006) found Leptosomus to be outside of a land bird clade that includes owls, mousebirds, 'core coraciiforms', trogons and piciforms (woodpeckers and kin), and Hackett et al. (2008) found Leptosomus to be close to (but outside of) a clade that includes trogons, piciforms and 'core coraciiforms'.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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A few things had been added: a hennery, -- called by Dotty "a henpeckery" -- and a graceful white boat, named the Water-Kelpie.
Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple
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A new bird species discovered in Borneo: the spectacled flowerpecker
WN.com - Articles related to Tiger tourism and tiger conservation are Varty's mission at South Africa's Tiger Canyons (Part 2)
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She gave him a woodpecker's tongue, arrowheaded and barbed; an ox tongue, muscular, broad, and hung with drool; and, finally, the shy, happy tongue that the porpoise employs to push the waves to shore.
Skinny Legs and All
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Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
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There are four kinds of tit around here as well as woodpeckers, chaffinches, grey leg geese and tufted ducks.
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Woodpeckers, screech owls, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, tree swallows and some flycatchers need them.
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Woodpeckers, accustomed to chiselling their food out of timber, have little difficulty in cutting out nest chambers in tree trunks.
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The air in the Lake District this weekend was so clear and quiet except for bird calls - buzzards, curlew, woodpeckers, geese and owls.
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Such avian predators as European jays and great-spotted woodpeckers cannot open the nest-boxes at the study area, whereas martens easily enter nest-boxes by removing the top.
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The soldierly looking red-headed woodpeckers, in their striking black, red, and white uniform, were much in evidence.
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Labels: ivorybill woodpecker, research posted by Chad Arment @ 7: 56 PM
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Clouds of oxpeckers chirp above the buffalo, while cattle egrets, a series of white splashes, rise and fall at their feet.
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According to an article about double entendres, (intentional and otherwise) in great literature that ran in Playboy about 40 years ago, "pecker" in British slang meant "lips" or "mouth" (cf: "give a peck on the cheek").
My Intercostal Clavicle
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Among the birds, the Knysna lourie (Tauraco corythaix), Knysna warbler (Bradypterus sylvaticus, VU), Knysna woodpecker (Campethera notata), chorister robin-chat (Cossypha dichroa), and forest canary (Serinus scotops) are all near-endemic to this ecoregion.
Knysna-Amatole montane forests
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With the volume dealing with the picarian birds (woodpeckers) Buffon announces the withdrawal of Guéneau de Montbéliard, and his obligations for advice and help to the Abbé
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
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Wood peckers and other birds that climb tree trunks often have these zygodactyl toes.
CNN Transcript May 16, 2007
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Primitive primates called lemurs fill the ecological roles of woodpeckers, squirrels and monkeys.
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Studies confirm the most delicate and exotic species - butterflies, dragonflies, otters, kingfishers, woodpeckers - do indeed get wiped out.
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Other important birds are lesser seed-finch (Oryzoborus angolensis), ruddy-breasted seedeater (Sporaphila minuta), slate-colored seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), Guianan piculet (Picumnus minutissimus), blood-coloured woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus), and the crimson-hooded manakin (Pipra aureola).
Paramaribo swamp forests
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‘grub-picker’ (or tree-creeper), about as small as the penduline titmouse, with speckled plumage of an ashen colour, and with a poor note; it is a variety of the woodpecker.
The History of Animals
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I am like a woodpecker. When I want to accomplish something, I just keep at it.
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The 204 bird species include capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, black grouse Lyrurus tetrix, willow grouse Lagopus lagopus, hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, three-toed woodpecker Picoides tridactylus, nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes and red-flanked bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus.
Virgin Komi Forests, Russian Federation
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The chapter on the challenges of bird identification explains how to differentiate similar species, such as the downy and the hairy woodpecker.
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The woodpecker sat on his perch with wings held tightly against his sides, "humped" up as though he were high-shouldered.
In Nesting Time
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Large carnivores such as brown bear and wolf have persisted here along with several rare birds including the capercaillie, griffon vulture, and black woodpecker.
Cantabrian mixed forests
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Use suet or specialty suet cakes with added berries or peanuts to attract woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice, Carolina wrens and wintering warblers.
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All other birds, from loons and penguins to woodpeckers and sparrows, are placed together in the third main lineage, the Neoaves.
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He told her that a pecker is another name for a winky.
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There are two additional subfamilies of the Picidae, Picumninae, which is the sister group of the true woodpeckers, and Jynginae (wrynecks), which is sister to the Picinae-Picumninae clade.
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This has been confirmed experimentally in some woodpeckers, wrens, fairywrens and warblers.
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The air in the Lake District this weekend was so clear and quiet except for bird calls - buzzards, curlew, woodpeckers, geese and owls.
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While we don't have tall trees, our neighbors do, and the firs and oaks that surround our property drop acorns and provide homes for jays, woodpeckers, robins and sparrows.
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The feet of most woodpeckers are large and zygodactylous, meaning two toes point forward and two backward on each foot.
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European Starlings are cavity nesters, and nests are generally located in natural hollows, old woodpecker holes, birdhouses, or building eaves and crevices.
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The birds must be taken alive; once captured they are either blinded or kept in a lightless box for a month to gorge on millet, grapes, and figs, a technique apparently taken from the decadent cooks of Imperial Rome who called the birds beccafico, or ‘fig-pecker’.
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There's an independent documentary-style movie out, Woodpecker, on the ivorybill.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Birds that cling to and climb the sides of trees, like woodpeckers and nuthatches, have strongly curved claws.
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Scientists think the flowerpecker is a canopy specialist, feeding off fruits high in tree canopies. green and yellow slug (Ibycus rachelae) was discovered on leaves in a mountain forest at altitudes up to 6,233 feet (1,900 meters) in Sabah, Malaysia.
Livescience.com
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The greyheaded wood-pecker tapping the hollow tree!
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Well, last night I got an email saying that my application is selected and I'm slated to go look on a Cornell team for the ivory-billed woodpecker in early December.
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They are known as the Nilgiri flower-pecker (_Dicæum concolor_) and
Birds of the Indian Hills
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We did not move the feeder until it had been visited by both nuthatches and by at least two titmice and two woodpeckers.
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There are pileated woodpeckers in some woods I hunt.
Are You A Birdwatcher?
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Our latest visitor, number 138, was a woodpecker, a yellow-bellied sapsucker.
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A relaxed African buffalo allows a pair of oxpeckers to glean ticks from around his eyelids.
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Not only is the Cape flush with cardinals, towhees, mockingbirds, catbirds, goldfinches and woodpeckers, its birds of the shore entice many a visitor here.
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They include a vivid flame-coloured bronzeback snake that can flare the back of its neck to reveal bright orange colours when threatened, a new bird named the spectacled flowerpecker, and a green and yellow slug with a tail three times the length of its head.
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I have been involved with redbilled oxpeckers since 1996, when the project to bring them into our area started.
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If the researchers obtain conclusive photographic evidence of the woodpecker, it will settle a debate that has become heated in recent years and fascinated millions of people around the world, from bird-watchers and environmentalists to Arkansas farmers and duck hunters.
Archive 2007-02-01
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Wouldn't it be worth it just to go to see tons and tons of pileated woodpeckers, sapsuckers, red-headed woodpeckers?
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The curlew and oystercatcher are back and the great spotted woodpeckers have chosen the oldest telegraph poles in the village for best quality drumming sounds.
