noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
spotted
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An even more startling species to arrive in numbers to Shetland is the great spotted woodpecker .
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The great spotted woodpecker will nest in this tree, or that, never more than 20 yards apart.
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Birds abound too, and this is a good place to discover the great spotted woodpecker .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A greater-spotted woodpecker zooms in on a telegraph pole on the lane.
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A Julian Huxley will become an expert more easily if his focus is on woodpeckers rather than on all birds.
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And so it goes for woodpeckers and hawks and two dozen other groups Walton analyzes on the three discs.
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Different kinds of wasps will then come to lay their eggs on the grubs, and woodpeckers will later feast on both.
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Even the ivory-billed woodpecker has vanished quietly, though the history of its decline in numbers closely parallels that of the crane.
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In common with toucans, parrots and woodpeckers, cuckoos have two toes pointing forwards and two pointing back.
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The researchers discovered that the woodpecker always keeps its strike absolutely straight.
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The secret may be in how the woodpecker hits the tree.