英:['sæpsʌkə]
美:['sæpˌsʌkə]
英:['sæpsʌkə]
美:['sæpˌsʌkə]
sap·suck·er
saep suh kr
The first known use of sapsucker was in 1805
sapsuckernoun
any of various North American woodpeckers that drill holes in trees in order to obtain sap and insects for food
1 Many types of insects and animals, including sapsuckers, detect the sweet tree sap and will be attracted to the area.
2 The sapsucker’s is the shortest of any, and reaches barely beyond the hinge of the jaws.
3 One gayly-dressed little sapsucker hammered a tree near by and scolded vigorously.
4 On his own trees the sapsucker was not in such haste, but lingered about the prepared rings, evidently taking his pick of the insects attracted there.
5 A pair of stout blue jays chased each other and squatted proudly in a tree of bright red leaves, and two yellow-bellied sapsuckers darted low, back and forth across a path near the boathouse.
6 “Yellow-bellied sapsucker,” she called out 10 minutes into the walk.
7 Prior to Hercules’ tenure at the airport, wildlife strikes have included at least two coyotes, two deer, three bats, three geese and a yellow bellied sapsucker.
8 It takes a search to track down the Williamson’s sapsucker, bigger than life, down by the West Side Highway.
9 Sitting one evening on the veranda, looking over the meadow, I heard his low "kr-r-r," and saw him alight upon the sapsucker's elm.
10 So much we have learned about this sapsucker’s habits, and now we should like to know why his work is harmful, and why that of the other woodpeckers is not.
11 The sapsucker is never as confiding as the downy, and from a safe distance sees others murdered for sins which are his alone.
12 Other birds such as the pygmy nuthatch and the Williamson's sapsucker are also forecast to lose habitat -- up to 81 percent and 78 percent, respectively.
13 Up in the frozen tundra of the northern Bronx, some creatures were stirring, yes, but not the yellow-bellied sapsucker that Christopher Lyons was looking for.
14 The yellow-bellied sapsucker knocks neat lines of holes in the trunks of trees, to the consternation of some gardeners, but the sap loss is minimal, and, besides, there’s nothing you can do about it.
15 Even the sapsucker from the lawn had somehow heard the news that a feast was spread near the locusts, and came over to see.
16 It is this layer that the yellow-bellied woodpecker, known as the sapsucker, drills into and devours, thus drawing directly upon the vitality of the tree.
17 This is the way that the sapsucker obtains his ants, and the brush of stiff hairs is a help to him in such work.
18 We knew him well, however—the yellow-bellied woodpecker, or "sapsucker," as he was called in the vicinity.
19 This white-throated sparrow, yellow-bellied sapsucker, magnolia warbler and their 10 companions are colored by spray paint, not feathers.
20 It is true that the sapsucker catches great numbers of insects, taking them on the wing like a flycatcher.