downies

Flickers, downies, and hairy woodpeckers don't have that much blushing red on the backs of their heads.

Notes from the field: In praise of November 2008

Flickers, downies, and hairy woodpeckers don't have that much blushing red on the backs of their heads.

Lance Mannion: 2008

All the woodpeckers -- the downies and the hairies and the flickers -- are quirky and cautious and spend lots of time looking around sideways before getting to the suet.

Archive 2006-10-01 Kay Olson 2006

All the woodpeckers -- the downies and the hairies and the flickers -- are quirky and cautious and spend lots of time looking around sideways before getting to the suet.

Saturday at The Gimp Compound Kay Olson 2006

If a rainstorm starts, for instance, the downies will be wet through quickly before a parent can return to the nest to cover them, they'll be hypothermic in seconds and might die; babies in juvenile plumage are safe until a parent gets back to cover them.

Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

Faloners call the young in the nest an eyas; rehabbers and falconers call the very small ones, covered only in fluff, 'downies.

Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

Thrashing about among some dead boles, and making a great to-do, were a pair of small woodpeckers, which closely resembled the well-known downies of our eastern longitudes.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

"Hum!" she said, looking at the duck's brood of little downies swimming about after her, and one of them with a bit of shell sticking to its back.

Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn George Manville Fenn 1870

Don't make it compulsory, because then retards and downies who haven't voted before vote and then the country gets even worse.

Army Rumour Service 2010

Don't make it compulsory, because then retards and downies who haven't voted before vote and then the country gets even worse.

Army Rumour Service 2010