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• n  bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

• That's the woody woodpecker song .
• Madame Speaker, women are more than half the population of this great country, yet onscreen they're an endangered species--the ivory-billed woodpeckers of cinema.
• None came close to the success of Woody Woodpecker, who first hit the screen in 1940.

• peckerwood
• pecker

News & Articles

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• 1 dies, 2 injured in crash on Woodpecker Road in Chesterfield
  One person was fatally injured and two others remained hospitalized today as a result of a single-vehicle crash on Woodpecker Road in Chesterfield County on Sunday afternoon.
  June 17, 2013 - Richmond Times-Dispatch
• 6 injured in mud bog accident in White Springs
  Seven were injured after this truck flipped at the Woodpecker mud bog in White Springs Saturday. Courtesy photo
  June 17, 2013 - The Jasper News
• Woman charged in crash that killed brother in Chesterfield
  One person was fatally injured and two others remained hospitalized today as a result of a single-vehicle crash on Woodpecker Road in Chesterfield County on Sunday afternoon.
  June 17, 2013 - Richmond Times-Dispatch

Quotes

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• Andrew Jackson in New York Times
  In my opinion,Mr. Jackson wrote in an e-mail message on Wednesday, "the data presented thus far do no more than suggest the possibility of the presence of an ivory-billed woodpecker. I am most certainly not saying that ivory-billed...
• Mike Huckabee in CBS News
  Some of the world's leading ornithologists have verified through sight and sound the existence of the ivory-billed woodpecker,Huckabee said. "The fact that these skeptics can't find it says more about their bird-hunting ability than the...
• Ron Wilson in Toronto Star
  A woodpecker gets annoying after a while,said Wilson. "We hear (Phaneuf) all the way down in the coaches' office. Over 82 games, that can wear people down."