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.

Also seen by a few of us Firecrest and Pied Flycatcher, Great-spotted woodpecker and a few common whitethroats.

We did hear a Levaillant's Woodpecker and had views of an adult Egyptian mongoose with two youngsters.

Other species seen whilst searching include Crimson-mantled Woodpecker, Andean Parakeet, Red-crested Cotinga and perhaps most surprisingly, Rusty-fronted Canastero.

Many small birds were mobbing the owl, and we watched a Gray Woodpecker attempt to drive it away by pecking at its feet!

The household was always the centre of religious cult, and certain objects in the house - the door, the hearth, the store-cupboard (penus)- seem always to have had a sacred significance, and so became the objects and later the sites of the domestic worship. Of the cult of animals there is just sufficient trace to show that it must formerly have had its place in religious rite; the animals, once the objects of worship, appear in later times as the attributes of divinities, for instance, the sacred wolf and woodpecker of Mars.

Also seen by a few of us Firecrest and Pied Flycatcher, Great-spotted woodpecker and a few Common whitethroats.

The woodpecker 's tongue is extremely long and sticky for extracting insects, such as ants, from their nest chambers and crevices.

Current work involves the inclusion of three-dimensional casts eg, of a woodpecker 's nest, within the body of the panel.

Large trees with natural breeding cavities, usually woodpecker holes, have been virtually eliminated from the plains.

Woodpecker species abound in the riverside copses, often giving great views.

Within a hundred yards I tracked down the male lesser spotted woodpecker feeding in the upper branches of an oak.

A. Timber shingles can split, detach, decompose or suffer woodpecker attack.

Besides these, or part of them, certain copies contain sections of unknown origin about the bee, the stork, the tiger, the woodpecker, the spider and the wild boar.

The climbers comprise a large number of species, some of which, like those of the parrot (Psittacidae) and woodpecker (Picus), are particularly noticeable in every wooded region of the country.

Among birds common in Texas as well as in the other Southern States are the cardinal, golden-fronted woodpecker, Mississippi kite, mourning-dove, and turkey-buzzard.

It is the home of the southern fox-squirrel, Cotton rat, ricefield rat, wood rat, free-tailed bat, mocking bird, painted bunting, prothonotary warbler, red-cockaded woodpecker, chuckwills-widow, and the swallow-tailed and Mississippi kites.

On the upper verge of the pine forests, or in the scrubby vegetation just beyond, the following are not uncommon - black woodpecker (Picus martius), ring-ousel (Turdus torquatus), Bonelli's warbler (Phylloscopus Bonellii), crested tit (Parus cristatus), citril finch (Citrinella alpina), siskin (Chrysomitris spinus), crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes), blackcock (Tetrao tetrix), and the alpine varieties of the marsh-tit (Parus palustris, borealis) and tree-creeper (Certhia familiaris, costae).

The red-naped sapsucker and Lewis's woodpecker are conspicuous in wooded lands; Nuttall's poor-will, Say's phoebe, the desert horned lark, Bullock's.

Wild birds are not very common; among them are the hawk, parrot, owl, woodpecker, kingfisher, green pigeon, African magpie, the honey-sucker and canary.

Picus rejected her advances, and the goddess in her anger changed him into a woodpecker, which pecks impotently at the branches of trees, but still retains prophetic powers.

In the simplest form of art, he was represented by a wooden pillar surmounted by a woodpecker; later, as a young man with the bird upon his head.

Picus was often depicted as a woodpecker which was a favorited symbol for him.

The song birds and insectivorous birds include the cardinal grosbeak, scarlet and summer tanagers, meadow lark, song sparrow, catbird, brown thrasher, wood thrush, house wren, robin, blue bird, goldfinch, red-headed woodpecker, flicker (golden-winged woodpecker), and several species of warblers.

He died in 1780, and among other progeny left two famous sons, Woodpecker (1773), whose dam was Miss Ramsden (1760) by Cade, son of the Godolphin Barb, but descended also on the dam's side from the Darley Arabian and the Byerly Turk, and Highflyer (1774), whose dam was Rachel (1763) by Blank, son of the Godolphin Barb from a daughter of Regulus, also son of the Godolphin.

We also failed to bump into Iberian Green Woodpecker anywhere, but I had no specific gen.

As the large jackdaw sized bird flew toward the pond I could make out its appearance as a Green Woodpecker.

Habitat creation and conservation measures for birds, which include nightjar, owl and lesser-spotted woodpecker, include the provision of nesting boxes.

We had good close views of a male Downy Woodpecker and many Hirundines twittered in a tree.

We decided to start the afternoon with a search of the wood where we had heard the woodpecker earlier in the day.

A variety of woodland birds, including the great spotted woodpecker come to the feeding station in front of the windows.

We have seen a green woodpecker in the garden for the first time for more than 20 years.

A great spotted woodpecker was heard drumming in the tree quite close to the house on the 13th.

The ivory-billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis baird (CR - D) was recorded in 1986, but may now be extinct.

I am told a rare lesser spotted woodpecker was seen during the year.

Finally, we visit Deschutes National Forest, home to eleven woodpecker species.

Here also are found the sage thrasher, Le Conte's thrasher, the Texas nighthawk, Baird's woodpecker, and the mourning dove.

As a humming-bird, Huitzilopochtli led the Aztecs to a new home, as a wolf led the Hirpini, and as a woodpecker led the Sabines.

Woodpecker was the sire of Buzzard (1787), who in his turn became the father of three celebrated sons, Castrel (1801), Selim (1802), and Rubens (1803), all three chestnuts, and all out of an Alexander mare (1790), who thereby became famous.