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Downy woodpecker   /dˈaʊni wˈʊdpˌɛkər/   Listen
Downy woodpecker

noun
1.
Small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill.





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"Downy woodpecker" Quotes from Famous Books



... I climbed up to the nest of the downy woodpecker, in the decayed top of a sugar maple. For better protection against driving rains, the hole, which was rather more than an inch in diameter, was made immediately beneath a branch which stretched out almost horizontally from the main stem. It appeared merely a deeper shadow ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs
... I was out. Soon the jumping flight and cheery good-morning of a downy woodpecker led me to an old field with scattered evergreen clumps. There is no better time for a quiet peep at the birds than the morning after a snow-storm, and no better place than the evergreens. If you can find them at all (which ...
— Ways of Wood Folk • William J. Long


Words linked to "Downy woodpecker" :   peckerwood, woodpecker, pecker


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