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Definitions of woodpecker in various dictionaries:
noun - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Any of various usually brightly colored birds of the family Picidae, having strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for clinging to and climbing trees and a chisellike bill for drilling through bark and wood.
WOODPECKER - Woodpeckers are part of the family Picidae, a group of near-passerine birds that also consist of piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this ...
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The ivory-billed species of this bird is in danger of extinction |
The red caucated variety of this head-banging bird is seen here |
Though it's a type of this bird, the flicker feeds on the ground, not by drilling holes in trees |
This bird of the family Picidae uses its chisel-like bill to hammer into trees for food |
A head-banger:cowpoke red |
Called the "yellowhammer" because it sounds like one, the flicker is a variety of this |
Not to knock it, but Alabama's yellowhammer is a type of this |
We hope the ivory-billed species of this U.S. & Cuban bird makes a comeback, knock on ..... |
Still listed as endangered as of 2002, the ivory-billed species of this bird may be extinct |
Here's the drill--a sapsucker is one of these birds |
Woodpecker description |
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Woodpeckers are part of the family Picidae, a group of near-passerine birds that also consist of piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. 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 that live in treeless areas, such as rocky hillsides and deserts, and the Gila woodpecker specialises in exploiting cacti. * Members of this family are chiefly known for their characteristic behaviour. They mostly forage for insect prey on the trunks and branches of trees, and often communicate by drumming with their beak, producing a reverberatory sound that can be heard at some distance. Some species vary their diet with fruits, birds' eggs, small animals, and tree sap. They mostly nest and roost in holes that they excavate in tree trunks, and their abandoned holes are of importance to other cavity-nesting birds. They sometimes come into con |