verb. To quell is to stop or quiet something. An example of quell is to soothe someoneâs anger.
Overview. Black-backed Woodpecker: Small woodpecker with black back, black wings with white spots on flight feathers, barred flanks, white underparts. Head has a conspicuous white cheek mark and yellow crown. Tail is black with white outer tail feathers. Black bill is long and stout. Legs and feet are gray.
unlike most other woodpeckers northern flickers are principally ground feeders though they also forage on tree trunks and limbs they have a strongly undulating flight pattern and they can be easily identified in flight by this pattern and their prominent white rumps their whinny call sounds somewhat like laughter