green woodpecker

American  

noun

1. a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.

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green woodpecker British  

noun

1. a European woodpecker, Picus viridis, with a dull green back and wings and a red crown

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green woodpecker

Photograph: Martin Le May/Peter Lawson/East News Press Agency Surely amateur photographer Martin Le-May’s snap of a weasel hitching a lift on a green woodpecker, which went viral earlier this year, is the favourite?

From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2015

Mr. Croker’s dæmon, a green woodpecker, drilled vigorously into a waste piece of pine with a sound like a machine gun.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

The laughing cry of the green woodpecker, or "yaffle," as the bird is by onomatopoeia called in some parts, is regarded as a sign of rain.

From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Savory, Arthur H.

Under the vault of the trees the cry of the green woodpecker has magic sounds.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

Another bird that has defied the gun and trap is the green woodpecker, which used to be killed for alleged destruction of timber.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard