Woodpecker

(noun.) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects.

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• Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Puts a man in mind of the country house in the Woodpecker-tapping, that was known by the smoke which so gracefully curled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Hence this Colaptes, in all the essential parts of its structure, is a woodpecker. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Yet in North America there are woodpeckers which feed largely on fruit, and others with elongated wings which chase insects on the wing. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The beak, however, is not so straight or so strong as in the typical woodpeckers but it is strong enough to bore into wood. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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