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woodpeckers
1. Woodpeckers bore into the pine trees, and puffins live here
2. Forever after that woodpeckers wore red
3. The front of the red chariot box is richly decorated with golden oak leaves, laurel leaves, figs, horses, wolves and woodpeckers
4. She would pick up her German grammar in a quick desire to do something in return, something that gave her real trouble--shall one not say somehow Thank you?--and she engulfed huge tracts of it on these expeditions, learning pages of it by heart and repeating them aloud to the pine-trees and the woodpeckers
5. “She said it was for woodpeckers,” Suzanne said, “but how could woodpeckers eat six pounds of peanut butter? That gal’s gonna get rabies if she’s not careful
6. Trees flying by, woodpeckers hammering in the distance, landlocked birds scattering when the girls ran forth and a few choice deer skittering along the bushes—quite realistically, it could be seen as magical: as a thing and place and time and moment in which nature became one with the real world and that little girls, who could not possibly be animals, could grow fangs and teeth and horns
7. She therefore beat her hands together and at that signal a thousand large birds called Woodpeckers flew in at the window
8. Every April for as far back as there were calendars, you thought you heard woodpeckers tapping the housetop
9. In the evening, a dreamy vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings
10. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering little pecks on the bark
11. 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
12. The beak, however, is not so straight or so strong as in the typical woodpeckers but it is strong enough to bore into wood
13. Hence it will cause him no surprise that there should be geese and frigate-birds with webbed feet, living on the dry land and rarely alighting on the water, that there should be long-toed corncrakes, living in meadows instead of in swamps; that there should be woodpeckers where hardly a tree grows; that there should be diving thrushes and diving Hymenoptera, and petrels with the habits of auks
14. If green woodpeckers alone had existed, and we did not know that there were many black and pied kinds, I dare say that we should have thought that the green colour was a beautiful adaptation to conceal this tree-frequenting bird from its enemies; and consequently that it was a character of importance, and had been acquired through natural selection; as it is, the colour is probably in chief part due to sexual selection
15. Hence we can understand, bearing in mind that each organic being is trying to live wherever it can live, how it has arisen that there are upland geese with webbed feet, ground woodpeckers, diving thrushes, and petrels with the habits of auks
16. There were marks of an axe and of woodpeckers on the butt
17. Woodpeckers, robins, and blackbirds arrived
