What's the difference between sparrow and woodpecker?

Sparrow


Definition:

  • (n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.
  • (n.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Groups of photosensitive female house sparrows have been kept under night-interruption and intermittent light cycles for a period of 6 weeks.
  • (2) A clinical study focused on the evaluation of adaptive functioning with use of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Sparrow, Balla, & Cicchetti, 1984, 1985) is presented as an example of a way in which occupational therapy can provide assessment data valuable to the interdisciplinary clinical team.
  • (3) Laboratory and domestic animals: mice, hamsters, rabbits, sparrows, chickens and lambs were inoculated with Orungo virus to determine their susceptibility as evidenced by clinical response, viraemia and antibody development.
  • (4) Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) was localized in the brains of two passerine species, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), by means of immunohistochemistry.
  • (5) Body weight was not correlated with foramen magnum area in 25 specimens of savannah sparrow, Ammodramus sandwichensis.
  • (6) Riga, accompanied by Fraeye, was at Charlton's Sparrows Lane training ground on Tuesday and watched on as Powell's existing coaching staff oversaw the first-team squad.
  • (7) The continuous administration of low levels of melatonin via intraperitoneally placed Silastic capsules either (i) shortened the free-running period of activity or (ii) induced continuous activity in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) maintained in constant darkness.
  • (8) Testosterone sensitivity of the seminal sacs of castrated tree sparrows from each of three reproductive states was evaluated by measuring the change in seminal-sac mass per unit change in the logarithm of replacement or plasma testosterone.
  • (9) There was no effect of B on basal metabolic rate of either species, but nocturnal metabolic rate varied significantly less over the 3-h period of measurement in B-treated sparrows and siskins than in control birds.
  • (10) Adult song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) were tested for response to songs of conspecific males that had been reared in acoustic isolation or deafened early in life.
  • (11) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
  • (12) In sparrows, pigeons and ducks, liver and kidney activities tended to be similar and increased with body size.
  • (13) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
  • (14) As Andrew Sparrow points out elsewhere, even if McDonnell gets a go and, as now seems certain, Andy Burnham takes the number of ex-ministerial candidates to four, that will hardly solve one big problem: a field built around two siblings, and largely made up of Oxbridge-educated, fortysomething white men, whose adult lives have mostly been played out in SW1.
  • (15) In addition 11% of mice (Mus musculus), 5% of deer mice (Peromyscus), 3% of rats (Rattus norvegicus) and less than 2% of sparrows (Passer domestcus) were seropositive.
  • (16) avenue31 I thought it was Captain Sparrow who invented the exercise regime, in Pilates of the Caribbean.
  • (17) The sparrows resynchronized in 5 days when LD8:16 (8 hr of light alternating with 16 hr of dark) was advanced by 8 hr; however, the sparrows were 1.7 hr from resynchronization after 5 days when the schedule was delayed 8 hr.
  • (18) The duration of detectable neutralizing antibody in these birds was found to be ephemeral in some species (e.g., black-capped chickadees) and extremely longlasting in others (e.g., gray catbirds, swamp sparrows).
  • (19) Under physiological conditions (41 C, pH 7.5, PCO2 approximately 35 Torr) the oxygen half saturation pressure P50 are 50 Torr for the chickens, 38 Torr for the pigeon, 43 Torr for the Japanese quail and 44 Torr for the sparrow.
  • (20) It was shown that these mosquitoes fed principally on House Finches and House Sparrows, the most common passeriform birds found in the collection areas.

Woodpecker


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A blackbird is broadcasting its mellifluous song, a squirrel runs up a nearby tree and surprisingly, given that we are in central London, we can both hear a woodpecker knocking.
  • (2) The only sound is the astonishing cackle of a green woodpecker.
  • (3) You will see woodpeckers and treecreepers, and all the flora you would expect.
  • (4) Cystacanths later recovered from the woodroaches developed into mature worms when pipetted into esophaguses of red-bellied woodpeckers, Centurus carolinius: red-headed woodpeckers, Melanerpes erythrocephalus; yellow-shafted flickers, Colaptes auratus; and a hairy woodpecker, Dendrocopos villosus.
  • (5) Furthermore, all these impacts could occur simultaneously, posing a particularly devastating threat to already vulnerable species and systems.” They note the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker as an example; it lives in longleaf pine forests, which will likely be among the forest casualties in this new urban wasteland.
  • (6) Ceca are absent in woodpeckers, hummingbirds, swifts, kingfishers, pigeons, mousebirds, cuckoos, and parrots.
  • (7) From Tring station there's a four- or a six-mile circular route through an area with lots of wildlife including red kites, goldcrests, lesser spotted woodpeckers and wild fallow deer.
  • (8) One woodpecker finch, Cactospiza pallida, was found to be infected with I. exigua, and a warbler finch, Certhidea olivacea was infected with I. fragmenta.
  • (9) Luddenden Brook runs through it, there are shaded walks criss crossing throughout, rare plants, woodpeckers and deer - and you can camp very cheaply at the council-run Jerusalem Farm on the edge of the woods.
  • (10) Phosalone had little effect on brain ChE activity of birds from treated groves; only slight to moderate (21 to 38%) ChE inhibition was detected in blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) and red-bellied woodpeckers (Melanerpes carolinus).
  • (11) As a contrast, it depleted 60-80% of both NE and E from the innervated glands as compared to 17-43% reduction from the denervated glands in nonpasserine (woodpecker, parakeet, and koel) birds.
  • (12) Cystacanths fed starlings, Sturnus vaulgaris, and red-winged blackbirds, Agelaius phoeniceus, did not produce infections although cystacanths from the same pool were infective to control woodpeckers.
  • (13) Infection was achieved in all woodpeckers fed cystacanths at least 47 days old and the mean prepatent period was 35 days.
  • (14) We determined the prevalence of six genera of bacteria from a sample of 387 cloacal swabs from 364 passerines and woodpeckers.
  • (15) This brought on an unprecedented wave of extinctions or near misses; the Carolina parakeet and the Rocky Mountain locust were driven to extinction and the Pronghorn antelope, the bison, black-footed ferret, Eskimo curlew, ivory-billed woodpecker, heath hen and others were brought to the brink.
  • (16) A preliminary anatomical study of the woodpecker's head suggests that it may be fruitful to explore impact protective systems which are radically different from those in common use.
  • (17) Which is exactly what we did on her last day, watching woodpeckers in the copse in front of her cottage, and remembering our adventures together; up to an hour before she died, we were planning a new one, and she was excited that it might include a recce to the Arctic Circle to view the aurora borealis .
  • (18) Filled with long-tailed tits or goldfinches or cackling green woodpeckers, many are as thick as houses, a coalition of holly, rowan, hazel, dogwood and bramble, with oaks permitted to grow into grand trees.
  • (19) My mother made a new cover for our battered sofa from his Woodpecker fabric and my sisters wore smock-like dresses made from his textiles.
  • (20) The woodpecker is an experiment in Nature, a model for the investigation of mechanisms of basic importance for head injury and its prevention.