Many country dwellers will not admit that there is no Woodpecker in Australia, but it is a fact, nevertheless.
It never chisels mortice-holes in a tree to get out a grub, as the true Woodpecker does.
The bear was silent, and thought of his supper; and the two continued their journey till they reached another tree with a woodpecker tapping on it.
After they had gone some way, they passed a tree-stump, on which a bright coloured woodpeckerwas tapping.
The latter seems to be the prevailing woodpecker through the woods of this region.
Of course the woodpecker and his kind have sharp eyes, still I was surprised to see how quickly Downy found out some bones that were placed in a convenient place under the shed to be pounded up for the hens.
The woodpecker was one of his stock examples of adaptation.
Here the King sent for the Woodpecker also, and the Woodpeckercame before him.
Here the story of What the Otter Did stops and the story of What Happened when the Woodpecker Sounded the War-gong commences.
The Mouse-deer replied, "Your slave came to kill them because the Woodpecker appeared and sounded the War-gong.
Why is one species of willow-wren or hawk or woodpecker common in England, and another extremely rare: why at the Cape of Good Hope is one species of rhinoceros or antelope far more abundant than other species?
The author may possibly have taken the case of the woodpecker from Buffon, Histoire Nat.
Mr Hudson to the effect that in other districts this woodpecker climbs trees and bores holes.
The passage in the text corresponds with a discussion on the woodpecker and the mistletoe in Origin, Ed.
The ivory-billed woodpecker is chiefly an inhabitant of the extreme Southern States, and especially those which border on the Gulf of Mexico.
The food of this woodpecker consists of beetles, larvæ, and large grubs, and it has a great fondness for wild grapes and ripe persimmons.
The green woodpecker was placed vertically against his branch, his side towards his neighbour, his head turned partly round so that he looked directly at him with one eye.
The red-headed woodpecker builds its nest at the bottom of a tunnel in a tree, dug by other birds, or adapted to use from an already existing cavity.
Seventy-five per cent of the food of the downy woodpecker is insects.
But with all his digging and tapping, the sound by which the vicinity of a Woodpecker is most frequently detected, especially in spring and summer, is the unmistakable laughing note which has gained for him the name of 'Yaffle.
The admirable adaptation of the structure of the Woodpecker to its mode of life is well pointed out by Yarrell.
A patient, however, must on no account taste the root, if a Woodpecker should happen to be in sight, or he will be certain to be stricken with blindness.
The Springwort is procured by plugging up the hole in a tree in which a green or black woodpecker has its nest with young ones in it.
In Swabia, the Springwort is regarded as a plant embodying electricity or lightning; but the Hoopoe takes the place of the Woodpecker in employing the herb for blasting and removing offensive obstacles.
This Woodpecker is a resident of the north and is rarely, if ever, seen south of the Great Lakes, although it is recorded that a specimen was seen on a telegraph pole in Chicago a few years ago.
Observation of the habits of this Woodpecker is necessarily limited, as the bird is not often seen within the regions where it might be studied.
The woodpecker seemed to take matters very coolly, and improved his time by pounding away industriously on the inside of the tree.
The next moment the woodpecker flew out, and the kingbirds were after him in an instant They followed him until he reached the woods, and then returned to the cottage.
His loud, angry twittering soon brought his mate to his assistance, and then the woodpecker found himself between two fires.
At length the woodpecker took refuge in a tree that stood on the bank of the creek, and then seemed perfectly at his ease.
Illustration: Young Flickers] This member of the woodpecker family has some individuality.
On one occasion I saw a downywoodpecker come too close to a gnat-catcher's nest.
What I have said about the woodpecker applies also to the mistletoe.
Mr. Chambers did not suppose that a woodpecker became a woodpecker per saltum though born of some widely different bird, but Mr. Darwin's words have no application unless they convey this impression.
Even the brave chickadees are appalled, and the disheartened woodpecker mopes beside the dead trunk, behind whose impenetrable shield he can hear the grub boring in safety.
The song-birds are singing in southern woods, but chickadee, nuthatch, and woodpecker are chatty and companionable and keep the woods in heart with a stir of life.
It is a warfare which the groundling habits of the golden-wings make them more ready to engage in than any other of the woodpecker clans.
The woodpecker drums on the high and dry limb of a dead tree his resounding signal-call that is nothing more nor less (in our view) than so much sign language.
The woodpeckertrusts no living species save his own, and drills high up into a hollow tree-trunk for his home.
A woodpecker when excavating its nest will often allow a human being to approach sufficiently dose to witness it throw over its shoulder the chips of wood it has cut away with its bill.
A red-headed woodpecker swung downward on the wing to the white-brown side of a dead elm, sounded a brief tattoo upon the surface, then dived at a passing insect.
The woodpeckers patronized it much, and tested every rail for food, but only in a merely incidental way, for each woodpecker knew that every rail was green and tough, and sound and tenantless as yet.
Miss Woodpecker was a tall stately girl, of the kind that pass for lilies in the flowery language of the novelists.
However, if Miss Woodpecker feels these fine ethical shades, won't she be ineligible?
Winifred Woodpeckerwas accompanied by her mother, the resemblance between the two being generally remarked, and Miss Margaret Linbridge seemed to afford Richard Westbourne copious opportunities for jealousy.
Now scarlet was the color of Mars, the drum was his favorite instrument of music, and Picus the woodpecker was his own bird.
They called themselves the Picentes, the Woodpecker People, and their children all knew the story of the sacred spring and the bird of Mars.
Then, with a sudden rush of little wings, a green woodpecker flew down from the tree top and perched on a bough just over their heads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woodpecker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
