Woodpecker

//ˈwʊdˌpɛkɚ//

"Woodpecker" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The woodpecker is feeding its mate.

I hear a woodpecker.

Among the rest, the most able are: the ever watchful Crane, the mournful turtle dove, the cuckoo, the stock dove, the woodpecker, the jay, the crow and so on.

The woodpecker is pecking the tree trunk vigorously.

"What's that sound?" "It sounds like a woodpecker."

It's a woodpecker.

Mary explained the haiku poem by Shūōshi Mizuhara. “The drumming of the woodpecker,” she wrote, “indicates that it is autumn. The season is drawing to a close, however, as the leaves are already falling swiftly from the trees standing in the meadow — a picture that, accompanied by the drumming of the woodpecker, the industrious herald of autumn, generates a feeling of gloomy loneliness in the face of walks soon to be over. Since the noisy woodpecker is in the foreground of the soundscape, it must be otherwise very still.”

The ivory-billed woodpecker was once the US's largest woodpecker species but the last commonly agreed sighting was in 1944 in Louisiana.

"Is that a woodpecker?" "No, it's a hummingbird."

Scientists say that a woodpecker’s brain is able to withstand g-forces of 1,200 G’s from the repeated impacts and deceleration brought on by this rapid pecking.

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On its summit towered aloft the fir tree which has often been referred to, like a mighty mast, full of woodpeckers' holes.

His skin was scarlet like the head of the green woodpecker.

An adult female of this rare woodpecker was taken at 6,000 feet in April 1925 near Chingchuan in the forests of northern Szechuan.

Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes.

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