单词	woodpecker
释义	woodpeckerwood‧peck‧er /ˈwʊdˌpekə $ -ər/ noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A greater-spotted woodpecker zooms in on a telegraph pole on the lane. A Julian Huxley will become an expert more easily if his focus is on woodpeckers rather than on all birds. And so it goes for woodpeckers and hawks and two dozen other groups Walton analyzes on the three discs. Different kinds of wasps will then come to lay their eggs on the grubs, and woodpeckers will later feast on both. Even the ivory-billed woodpecker has vanished quietly, though the history of its decline in numbers closely parallels that of the crane. In common with toucans, parrots and woodpeckers, cuckoos have two toes pointing forwards and two pointing back. The researchers discovered that the woodpecker always keeps its strike absolutely straight. The secret may be in how the woodpecker hits the tree. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► spotted · An even more startling species to arrive in numbers to Shetland is the great spotted woodpecker.· The great spotted woodpecker will nest in this tree, or that, never more than 20 yards apart.· Birds abound too, and this is a good place to discover the great spotted woodpecker. a bird with a long beak that it uses to make holes in trees
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