| 单词 | sapsucker |
| 例句 | Sometimes he acted like the original yellow-bellied sapsucker. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z On the front wall, a pair of Bullock’s orioles feeds three chicks, and a red-breasted sapsucker feeds two. A walking tour of Manhattan’s Audubon Mural Project 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “Yellow-bellied sapsucker,” she called out 10 minutes into the walk. ‘Toward the End of the Walk, a Bird Somewhere Ahead Burst Into Song’ 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z The area is home to woodpeckers like the red-breasted sapsucker and songbirds like the black-headed grosbeak, which whistles its warbled song in the shade. Try not to smile on this loop of the off-leash area at Marymoor Park, aka Doggy Disneyland 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The forest also is home to bear, coyote, deer and birds from hairy woodpeckers to red-breasted sapsuckers. A vast new green jewel for the region in largest-ever community campaign led by Forterra 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z It takes a search to track down the Williamson’s sapsucker, bigger than life, down by the West Side Highway. Opinion | Public Art Takes Flight 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Thirty million people will see firsthand what comes of a comfy childhood and extended adolescence and the life of a tycoon with a childlike worldview unchallenged by the hirelings and sapsuckers around him. The shame of the graduation speaker 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z This white-throated sparrow, yellow-bellied sapsucker, magnolia warbler and their 10 companions are colored by spray paint, not feathers. Audubon Mural Project Brings 5-Story Flock to Uptown Manhattan 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Other birds such as the pygmy nuthatch and the Williamson's sapsucker are also forecast to lose habitat -- up to 81 percent and 78 percent, respectively. Climate Change May Shift Composition of U.S. Bird Species 2012-08-09T19:15:00.180Z There is a muted hush, broken only by the sound of an occasional sparrow, raptor, raven or sapsucker. Opinion: Listen to the Soundscape 2012-07-28T23:43:38Z The real scourges of air traffic these days are black-bellied plovers, herring gulls and yellow-bellied sapsuckers, aviation experts say. Congress Targets Airliners' Collisions with Birds 2012-04-27T17:45:00.260Z One kind of sapsucker, Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis, occurs in the Rocky Mountains north into British Columbia and west to the Cascades and Sierra Nevada. Speciation of the Wandering Shrew 2011-12-22T03:00:30.143Z In contrast, I am delighted to find a clutch of trees peppered with quarter-inch holes, the work of yellow-bellied sapsuckers. City Room: A Ghostly Architecture of Naked Trees 2011-12-09T17:30:46Z But it must be admitted that very rarely does the sapsucker girdle a tree with holes enough to sap away its life. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z In a nod to the name, there is a small picture of a yellow-bellied sapsucker on the back wall, overshadowed by large Audubon prints on other walls. | Huntington: Sapsuckers Offers Variety Beyond Pub Fare - Review 2011-11-05T05:06:35Z Half-way up the bank on one side, half shrouded in the dense growth of underbrush which is springing up around it, is an old apple tree upon which the sapsuckers work yearly. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z In the black-breasted woodpecker, sometimes called Williamson’s sapsucker, the male and female are so totally different that they were long described and named as different birds. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Up in the frozen tundra of the northern Bronx, some creatures were stirring, yes, but not the yellow-bellied sapsucker that Christopher Lyons was looking for. City Critic: New Yorkers in Feathers, Counted in the Cold 2011-01-02T00:26:47Z 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 I set my trap carefully, baited with sapsucker and the next morning I had him. Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. It is this layer that the yellow-bellied woodpecker, known as the sapsucker, drills into and devours, thus drawing directly upon the vitality of the tree. Under the Maples The real offender is the sapsucker, that musical genius of whom we have already spoken. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z This species and the two following are the only real "sapsuckers," a crime that is often attributed to the most useful of the family. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The sapsucker alone drills rings or belts of holes for the sake of getting at the soft inner bark and drinking the sap that trickles from it. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z We knew him well, however—the yellow-bellied woodpecker, or "sapsucker," as he was called in the vicinity. Little Brothers of the Air Then in the fall come again the sapsuckers to the tree, remorselessly driving hole after hole through the still untouched segments of its circle of life. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The popular belief is that every woodpecker is a sapsucker, and that every hole he digs in a tree is an injury to the tree. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Fortune had treated me as one of her favorites: I had discovered the nest of Williamson's sapsucker. Birds of the Rockies Were it not for the insect pests which attack it and, worse still, the sapsucker, this tree might be considered for semi-commercial use in the north. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 On his own trees the sapsucker was not in such haste, but lingered about the prepared rings, evidently taking his pick of the insects attracted there. Little Brothers of the Air Like other idlers, the sapsucker in its deeds of gluttony and harm brings, if anything, more injury to others than to itself. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year If you will study the picture and the descriptions in the Key to the Woodpeckers, you will be able to recognize the sapsucker and his nearest relatives, whether in the East or in the West. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Such a featherland oddity was certainly foreign to any of my calculations; for, it must be remembered, this was prior to my making acquaintance with Williamson's sapsucker. Birds of the Rockies To this list two reporters added sapsuckers among the insects. Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 The two storehouses on the lawn seemed to belong to one family, whose labor alone had prepared them; certainly they were the property of the sapsuckers. Little Brothers of the Air The sapsucker is never as confiding as the downy, and from a safe distance sees others murdered for sins which are his alone. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year How do I know that it was a sapsucker’s work? The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z A most gorgeous bird, fairly rivalling, but not distancing, Williamson's sapsucker. Birds of the Rockies One winter we frequently counted from twelve to fourteen children standing under the tree on which a little sapsucker was at work. Bird Day; How to prepare for it This was the brilliant cousin of the sapsucker, the red-headed woodpecker, whose vagaries I shall speak of a little later. Little Brothers of the Air So the work of the sapsucker is injurious, while the grub-seeking woodpeckers confer only good upon the trees they frequent. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The sapsuckers drill lines of holes sometimes around and sometimes up and down the tree-trunk, but almost always in rings or belts about the trunk or branches. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z One gayly-dressed little sapsucker hammered a tree near by and scolded vigorously. At the Foot of the Rainbow Once a small black-and-white sapsucker, circling the trunk and peering into the crevices of the bark on a level with the windows, uttered minute notes which penetrated into the room like steel darts of sound. Bride of the Mistletoe While we watched him, he heard outside a sapsucker cry, to which he listened eagerly; then he drummed quite vigorously on the cornice, as if in reply. Little Brothers of the Air A sapsucker was marking an accurate circle of dots round the throat of a tall young maple, and enjoying his work in a low, guttural soliloquy, seemingly, yet, dismayingly, suggestive of spring. Fennel and Rue It is interesting to observe that the sapsucker, which was never seen to touch the fruit of the trees, agrees with the fruit-eating birds. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Because no other woodpecker has the habit which characterizes the sapsucker, of sinking holes in straight lines. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z There is no cheerier spring sound, in our belated Northern season, than the quick, melodious rappings of the sapsucker from some dead ash limb high above the meadow. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Sitting one evening on the veranda, looking over the meadow, I heard his low "kr-r-r," and saw him alight upon the sapsucker's elm. Little Brothers of the Air Most if not all woodpeckers drum occasionally, but drumming is the special accomplishment of the sapsucker. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z The sapsucker is a retiring, woodland bird that would hesitate to come into a town garden a mile away from the nearest woods unless to get something he could not find in the woods. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z So ambitious is the sapsucker of the excellence of his performance that no instrument but the best will satisfy him. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z It is true that the sapsucker catches great numbers of insects, taking them on the wing like a flycatcher. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Before the red-head had shown any signs of exhausting his find, the sapsucker himself appeared, and at once fell upon his bigger cousin with savage cries. Little Brothers of the Air This is the way that the sapsucker obtains his ants, and the brush of stiff hairs is a help to him in such work. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z The sapsucker’s is the shortest of any, and reaches barely beyond the hinge of the jaws. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z There is no danger of hurting the sapsucker’s reputation. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Scientists now do not deny that the sapsucker does harm. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Even the sapsucker from the lawn had somehow heard the news that a feast was spread near the locusts, and came over to see. Little Brothers of the Air We know that the sapsucker eats many insects, but it is impossible to prove that he intended these holes for insect lures. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z But all sapsuckers may be known by their pale yellowish under parts, and by the work they leave behind. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z If our sapsucker was drilling for sap, he arranged his holes so that it would almost run into his mouth, lazy bird! The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Our piece of bark has taught us:— That the sapsucker injured this tree. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z There remain two points to prove: whether the sapsucker drills his holes for the sake of the sap, or for insects attracted by the sap, provided that he eats anything but the inner bark. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Let us hear what they have to say about the sapsucker. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z As the yellow-bellied sapsucker is the only one found east of the Rocky Mountains, we shall speak only of him and his work. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z As it is a very rare tree in the vicinity of my home, the sapsucker’s only chance to satisfy his longing was by coming to some town garden like our own. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Not only is the theory improbable, but it fails to explain the sapsucker’s actions in this instance. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Our mountain ash trees have told us several facts about the sapsucker:— That he did not come to eat insects. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z So much we have learned about this sapsucker’s habits, and now we should like to know why his work is harmful, and why that of the other woodpeckers is not. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Here is a specimen of the yellow-bellied sapsucker’s work which I picked up under the tree from which it had fallen. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z It is not the holes he makes, nor the sap he draws, but the way he places his holes that makes the sapsucker an unwelcome visitor. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z |
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