peck, pick up
啄 centers on a bird's quick, repeated striking motion: pecking at food or picking up small items with the beak.
啄 combines 口 (mouth) with 豖, a component that likely depicts a pig or animal and contributes the sound. Together they suggest a mouth pecking like a bird.
A mouth 口 beside the animal-like 豖: picture a bird's beak pecking at the ground, picking up seeds.
For タク, imagine a woodpecker's beak going 'tack-tack-tack' against a tree: tack -> タク, as it pecks repeatedly.
woodpecker
woodpecker
olivaceous piculet (species of bird, Picumnus olivaceus)
seventh principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; stroke that falls leftwards with slight curve
to pick at; to peck at
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; golden opportunity
timing is everything; don't jump the gun
northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)
acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus)
white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos)
pygmy woodpecker (Dendrocopos kizuki)
lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos minor)
white-bellied woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis)
yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
coracoid
black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
Japanese green woodpecker (Picus awokera); Japanese woodpecker; wavy-bellied woodpecker
great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
Okinawa woodpecker (Sapheopipo noguchii)