音标:[ˈwʊdˌpekəz] ;
n. 啄木鸟( woodpecker的复数形式 )
n. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

Tragedy has produced opportunity among the acorn woodpeckers here in California's Carmel Valley. The second of two breeding females in this particular communal group has been killed, probably by the birds of prey that kill one in five of the acorn wo

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Woodpecker s and Fungus 啄木鸟和真菌 W: Woodpecker s puncture the bark of dead or dying trees, also known as snags, to find the wood-boring insects that make up their diet, and some species also excavate cavities in these trees for their nests.

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力文摘 English Digest

Woodpeckers Drum to their Own Tune Humans can recognize each other by voice alone. I sound different from other 60-Second Science reporters, for example. In fact, lots of non-human animals, of all types, use voices to distinguish familiar individuals

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advective thunderstorm
afrocarpus falcatas
alabastron
anhydrite for agriculture
anti-accident measure
ascomycetes
attainings
awro
bargaining range
barreres
baulkline
be a law unto yourself
Bertillon
braking region
carrier-mediated transport
cascade model
catalogue for the standardized parts
Cephalaspida
compile-directing sentence
cosella longana
creamy
desulphinase
dial dynamometer
discriminabilty
dolomedes raptor
Doucas
downpouring
downs
edward benjamin brittens
egosyntonic
engine inspection hatch
ex-services
excess temperature
fast-page mode
foramen secundum
Galeaspis
goody bag
groin rib
grouping of file
guest-host
guppie
health office
Heidenhain's iron hematoxylin staining
high-producing
hookways
huz
immature fibre
in deep
intrapolation
issue-baseds
kilin
kistner
kohlrausch bridge
landform
level of compensation
ligamenta caudale integumenti communis
magnesium permanganate
Makrikambos, Mali i(Makrikambos, Oro)
meshuggeners
metathelazias
miotic drugs
musicologies
nicarb process
no-ball
non-uniform scale
normal trip scram
noyses
number syntax
nummular syphilid
ozonidate
pagurus nigrivittatus
paracrine signal
patent country
platinum(ii) acetamide
polygynaiky
pretest risk function
Quang Thuan
randaiensis
refiguring
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ribozyme
rice case bearers
Riverside Res.
RTOW
secondary reflection
single-instruction
sticking force
stratiomyiids
streltsy
symbiotically
tetragonal holoaxial class
thorland
titlenes
trans guy
union trust
USABC
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venturicidins
water-table slope
well cleaning with perforator
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