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woodpecker
1. Also home to butterflies, red deer, ibex, snow hare, golden eagle, Eurasian pygmy owl, boreal owl, three-toed woodpecker and jack grouse
2. Birds include woodpecker, hawk, pine martin, falcon, owl and golden eagle
3. "Yes," said Downy Woodpecker, "and didn't he sing? All about blue skies, and sunshine and happy days, with his
4. Downy Woodpecker must keep his eyes open as he hammers the trees, and
5. He didn’t know the name of it, but it was either a woodpecker or some other bird, circling head-down and going around and around the branches of a small conifer
6. The room was at least fifteen feet by fifteen feet and was rather boring to be honest with you, save for the Woody Woodpecker cartoon that was playing in the background
7. Just as he was finished with his snack, Larry spotted a red-headed woodpecker gripping the side
8. Somewhere nearby, a woodpecker had found
9. Called on the woodpecker
10. It was the only sound, except the occasional cry of a woodpecker or the cry, immensely distant, of a hawk
11. and what the woodpecker far away was saying with his tok-
12. Several times they heard the drumming of a great woodpecker, the shyest of birds
13. A woodpecker, maybe, or some mutant jay? Its head must have been tucked underneath its body
14. Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard
15. Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? Yet in North America there are woodpeckers which feed largely on fruit, and others with elongated wings which chase insects on the wing
16. On the plains of La Plata, where hardly a tree grows, there is a woodpecker (Colaptes campestris) which has two toes before and two behind, a long-pointed tongue, pointed tail-feathers, sufficiently stiff to support the bird in a vertical position on a post, but not so stiff as in the typical wood-peckers, and a straight, strong beak
17. Hence this Colaptes, in all the essential parts of its structure, is a woodpecker
18. Even in such trifling characters as the colouring, the harsh tone of the voice, and undulatory flight, its close blood-relationship to our common woodpecker is plainly declared; yet, as I can assert, not only from my own observations, but from those of the accurate Azara, in certain large districts it does not climb trees, and it makes its nest in holes in banks! In certain other districts, however, this same woodpecker, as Mr
19. Petrels are the most aerial and oceanic of birds, but, in the quiet sounds of Tierra del Fuego, the Puffinuria berardi, in its general habits, in its astonishing power of diving, in its manner of swimming and of flying when made to take flight, would be mistaken by any one for an auk or a grebe; nevertheless, it is essentially a petrel, but with many parts of its organisation profoundly modified in relation to its new habits of life; whereas the woodpecker of La Plata has had its structure only slightly modified
20. How strange it is that a bird, under the form of a woodpecker, should prey on insects on the ground; that upland geese, which rarely or never swim, would possess webbed feet; that a thrush-like bird should dive and feed on sub-aquatic insects; and that a petrel should have the habits and structure fitting it for the life of an auk! and so in endless other cases
21. Say, some hollow tree; and then for morning calls and dinner-parties! Only a woodpecker tapping
