| 单词 | downy woodpecker |
| 例句 | Behind her the downy woodpecker drilled into a dead tree with a special beat she recognized. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In addition to the hairy and downy woodpeckers, there are bigger and brighter woodpeckers happy to entertain the gardener and other nature lovers. The percussive appeal of the woodpecker 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Nearby, I caught sight of a lone downy woodpecker hammering a dead tree trunk. Bird-Watching at Prospect Park Audubon Center 2011-12-02T00:11:23Z One challenge was to discern the hairy woodpecker from its doppelganger, the downy woodpecker. The percussive appeal of the woodpecker 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Instead, we found a flock of house finches, another of pine siskins and a diminutive downy woodpecker. The Quiet Thrill of Winter Wildlife Viewing 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z We saw more than 20 species, including a hairy woodpecker and a downy woodpecker working the same tree. Eagle-Eyed Urbanites? Winter Treks 2011-02-17T21:01:12Z Also, a downy woodpecker was incorrectly identified as a hairy woodpecker. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Try harder on images for birds in D.C. area 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z I missed walking outside to the chirpy song of a red-winged blackbird first thing in the morning, the downy woodpeckers tapping away on our old maple tree. Perspective | Creating a garden as a refuge for pollinators — and myself 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The downy woodpecker and the hairy woodpecker are two species that live in the same habitats. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z All around the yard the downy woodpeckers and the Carolina wrens and the tufted titmice are traveling from branch to branch, two by two. Opinion | I Will Not Rest Until This Garden Grows 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker. Mild weather leads to mixed results for annual bird count 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z A photo caption that accompanied an image with the article misidentified a downy woodpecker as a hairy woodpecker, and a group of bright yellow finches or vireos was referred to only as “birds.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Try harder on images for birds in D.C. area 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z There’s the quirky squeak of the American goldfinch, owl-like coos of mourning doves and the whinnying of the downy woodpecker as Central Park offers avid urban birders some respite. Hopeful birdsong, foreboding sirens: A pandemic in sound 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The downy woodpecker is slightly smaller and has a smaller beak than the hairy woodpecker. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The largest of the woodpeckers that frequent the area flew by, bigger than the red headed woodpecker and markedly larger than the downy woodpecker. In uncertain times, quest for birds offers an escape 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The thrashing thrasher refuses to be seen further, so we push on to observe a downy woodpecker - “love a woodpecker”, Franzen mutters – and stop for a few moments to discuss his feelings on ducks. Jonathan Franzen: 'Climate change isn't only reason for bird decline' 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z A downy woodpecker flits among the wayward branches of an uprooted tree. Why Are These Males Growing Eggs? There was a half-painted sketch of two downy woodpeckers fighting over a peanut, and one of a northern saw-whet owl — spotted in the Shakespeare Garden — being pestered by a group of jays. Character Study: Lee Rogers, a Watercolor Artist, Uses Painting to Escape Life on the Streets 2012-12-23T02:27:18Z The downy woodpecker uses its bill to search for food on small twigs and branches while the hairy woodpecker is most often observed searching for food on tree trunks. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z And there’s a downy woodpecker that’s been at it since it fell and has taken out one of the wood-boring beetles.” David Haskell Finds Biology Zen in a Patch of Nature 2012-10-22T16:11:40Z And the bluejays, downy woodpeckers, the orioles, the thrush family, the chipping sparrows, the robins, the indigo birds—and even the shy vireos ventured forth. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z You may possibly mistake this little warbler for a downy woodpecker when first you see him creeping rapidly over the bark of trees, or hanging from the under side of the branches. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z How daintily he helps himself to the tiniest morsels, never cramming his bill with gross mouthfuls as do his comrades at the board, the nuthatch and the downy woodpecker! In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z A few days since I climbed up to the nest of the downy woodpecker, in the decayed top of a sugar-maple. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z Watch the downy woodpecker at his work and see what sturdy blows he delivers, pausing after each one to aim and drive home another telling stroke. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z I place fragments of hickory-nuts in the interstices of the bark, and thus attract the nuthatches; a bone upon my window-sill attracts both nuthatches and the downy woodpecker. A Year in the Fields The sapsucker, the hairy and the downy woodpeckers also like beechnuts; the flicker prefers acorns; but do they store them for winter use? Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The flicker, too, loves the apple tree and bores his own hole in upright limbs, as does the downy woodpecker, often with much noise and obtrusion of vigorous chips. Old Plymouth Trails Beside my path in the woods a downy woodpecker, late one fall, drilled a hole in the top of a small dead black birch for his winter quarters. Ways of Nature No better little bird comes to our orchards than our friend the downy woodpecker. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Following my usual practice, I began a catalogue of the month's birds, and at the end of a fortnight discovered, to my astonishment, that the name of the downy woodpecker was missing. The Foot-path Way A hardy little friend is the downy woodpecker who, like the chickadee, stays by us the year around. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The downy woodpecker bores his nest hole in the softened heart-wood of upright limbs and pays for his lodging by devouring all grubs and borers that otherwise might make his house fall too soon. Old Plymouth Trails The downy woodpecker was one of my first callers. Little Brothers of the Air Mr. Burroughs tells us that a downy woodpecker of his acquaintance used to change his key by tapping on a knot an inch or two from his usual drumming place, thereby obtaining a higher note. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Those that remained, snowbird, cardinal, and downy woodpecker—the “checkerbacker” of the mountaineer,—harboured all night and much of the day in the barn loft and in Judith’s cedar tree. Judith of the Cumberlands March is sometimes a woodpecker month, and almost any day one is very likely to see, besides the flicker, the hairy or downy woodpecker. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The downy woodpecker, among other things, devours berries of three kinds of dogwood, Virginia creeper, service berry, strawberry, pokeberry, poison ivy, poison sumac, stag-horn sumac, and blue beech. Seed Dispersal The bird sounds which attract attention during the winter are the cheerful notes of the chickadee, the bold clarion call of the blue jay, and the sharp tap, tap, tap, of the downy woodpecker. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study The original proprietor of the place was the downy woodpecker. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs These four are the white-breasted nuthatch, tufted titmouse, downy woodpecker, and the merry little chickadee. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State Seventy-five per cent of the food of the downy woodpecker is insects. Bird Day; How to prepare for it It always gives me a little pleasurable emotion when I see in the autumn woods where the downy woodpecker has just been excavating his winter quarters in a dead limb or tree-trunk. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers Language: Write a story about the winter experiences of a downy woodpecker. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study The bird that seems to consider he has the best right to my hospitality is the downy woodpecker, my favorite neighbor among the winter birds. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs A few days since, I climbed up to the nest of the downy woodpecker, in the decayed top of a sugar-maple. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Soon the jumping flight and cheery good-morning of a downy woodpecker led me to an old field with scattered evergreen clumps. Ways of Wood Folk Then he may come upon a troop of chickadees, with a nuthatch or two in their wake, and maybe a downy woodpecker. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers Examine the bark scales when a downy woodpecker has been at work and note that the cocoons have been destroyed. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study The rest of the plumage is much like the downy woodpecker. Some Winter Days in Iowa Testimony in favor of the downy woodpecker has come from New York, New Jersey, Texas and California, "and no fewer than twenty larvae have been taken from a single stomach." Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation There appears nothing living except a downy woodpecker, whirling round and round upon a young beech-stem, and a few sparrows, plump with grass-seed and hurrying with jerking flight down the sunny glade. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 Bluebirds in December will also eat the berries of the poison ivy, as will the downy woodpecker. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers Follow the downy woodpecker to the apple tree and find out what he was pecking. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study The leisurely tapping of a downy woodpecker sounds like the ticking of a clock in a vast ancestral hall. Some Winter Days in Iowa The downy woodpecker is the relentless enemy of the codling moth, an insect that annually inflicts upon our apple crop damages estimated by the experts of the U.S. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The downy woodpecker found such a savory morsel under its bark that he perforated it in a ring quite round the tree before he left it. Among the Trees at Elmridge Flickers were shouting—or laughing, if one pleased to hear it so—with true flickerish prolixity, and a single downy woodpecker called sharply again and again. A Florida Sketch-Book The downy woodpecker has a very unmusical voice, but fortunately he is aware of this deficiency, and his only attempt at music is drumming with his beak upon a hollow limb or tree. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study We in the United States can hear the rough voice of the blue-jay, or perhaps see the busy downy woodpecker tapping industriously at the suet we have hung in the tree for him. 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