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Show Feathered Cosmeticians Woodpeckers are surgeons; with their strong, sharp beaks they cut down to the haunts of mischief-makers In the wood and extract them with barbed tongues. But there are other, smaller birds that haunt tree trunks in winter-chickadee, winter-chickadee, brown creeper, and nuthatch whose beaks are not stout enough for the woodpecker's drastic technique. These birds simply search crevices and crannies cran-nies in the bark, prying and digging dig-ging out insects and small cocoons that may be hibernating there. They are skin specialists cosmeticians. cos-meticians. Science Service. L |