Sentence examples for woodpecker it from inspiring English sources

For some regional icons, like the ivory-billed woodpecker, it may already be too late.

Her celebrated footwork – fast, fierce and controlled – can distil right down to the drilling of a lone woodpecker; it can be as threatening as a military drumbeat, as delicate as a patter of rain.

"I've never known of one fatality caused by either one of them," he says, "but this woodpecker, it's going to kill some folks probably if they keep stopping on these highways taking pictures".

A haven for birds, look out for blue tits during April and May bringing caterpillars back for their chicks or listen out for the call of the green woodpecker; it's quite distinctive, sounding like hoarse laughter.

6. Lesser spotted woodpecker It's hard enough to see anyway, but now, before all the leaves appear on the trees, is the best time to glimpse this scarce, minuscule, magical bird, the size of a Mars bar with a brilliant scarlet crest.

Although sexual dimorphism in bill shape is found in other birds, such as the riflebirds, sicklebills and other wood-excavating birds including some species of woodpecker, it was most pronounced in the huia.

Among Siberian jays and red-cockaded woodpeckers, it was the dominant siblings who stayed behind.

"There on the tree trunk!" And so it was: a small woodpecker, its black and white feathers accented with yellow.

These consisted of 4 control treatments, which were an empty cage, a cage with a great spotted woodpecker in it, a cage with a great spotted woodpecker in it with a recording of a great spotted woodpecker call playing and an empty cage with just the call playing.

"I'm not saying you can't be a conservationist without this feeling — it's just harder for me to understand what we owe the ivory-billed woodpecker without it".

After he passed out from drinking too much the others had his head pecked open by a woodpecker and it was found that nothing was there.