Woodpecker Definition

wo͝odpĕkər
woodpeckers
noun
woodpeckers
Any of a family (Picidae) of piciform birds distinguished by stiff tail feathers used for support, a strong, pointed, chisel-shaped bill used for drilling holes in bark to get insects, and a long, protrusile tongue with a spearlike tip.
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Noun

Singular:
woodpecker
Plural:
woodpeckers

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Woodpecker Sentence Examples

  • The Texas screech-owl, the Texas woodpecker, and the road runner, or ground cuckoo, are found mostly in southern and south-western Texas.

  • Prominent among a great variety of song-birds and insectivorous birds are the robin, blue bird, cat bird, sparrows, meadow-lark, bobolink, thrushes, chickadee, wrens, brown thrasher, gold finch, cedar wax-wing, flycatchers, nuthatches, flicker (golden-winged woodpecker), downy and hairy woodpeckers, rose-breasted grosbeak, Baltimore oriole, barnswallow, chimney swift, purple martin, purple finch (linnet), vireos and several species of warblers.

  • Also seen were many hoopoes, middle spot woodpecker and red back shrikes.

  • Also here we saw the Cuban subspecies of Northern Flicker, and West Indian Woodpecker.

  • Yellow-tailed Oriole was easy to identify along with Lineated Woodpecker and several common tanagers.

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