1) Boring thing to hear 2) Noisy tree climber 3) Pecker 4) Peckerwood 5) Piciform bird 6) Sapsucker cousin 7) Tree-hammering bird 8) Woody
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1) Chab 2) Ivorybill 3) Peckerwood 4) Piculet 5) Sapsucker
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The woodpeckers, piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers are a family, Picidae, of near-passerine birds. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. Most species live in forests or woodland habitats, although a few species are known to live in treeless areas, such...
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• (n.) Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.
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any of about 180 species of birds that constitute the subfamily Picinae (true woodpeckers) of the family Picidae (order Piciformes), noted for ... [4 related articles]
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<ornithology> Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae. ... These birds have the tail feathers pointed and rigid at the tip to aid in climbing, and a strong chisellike bill with which they are able to drill holes in the bark and wood of trees in search of insect larvae upo...
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Wood'peck`er noun (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to
Picus and many allied genera of the family
Picidæ . » These birds have the tail feathers pointed and rigid at the tip to aid in climbing, and a strong chisellike bill with which they are ...
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Woodpecker is a general name for the members of the large Picidae family of birds of the order Scansores, which is usually regarded as including two sub- families - the woodpeckers proper (Picus) and the soft-tailed wrynecks (Yunx) . The woodpeckers are climbing birds, the feet having two anterior and two posterior toes. The head is large and the n...
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HMS Woodpecker was a British Black Swan Class escort sloop of 1250 tons displacement launched around 139 and sunk during the Second World War. She was armed with six 4-inch anti-aircraft guns and ten smaller guns. Two 3-drum type boilers provided a top speed of 19.25 knots and she carried a complement of 180.
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n] - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
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peckerwood noun bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
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Bird of the family Picidae, order Piciformes. They are adapted for climbing up the bark of trees, and picking out insects to eat from the crevices. The feet, though very short, are usually strong; the nails are broad and crooked and the toes placed in pairs, two forward and two backward. As an ad...
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