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

It was a pied woodpecker, not the large green woodpecker, but another kind.

From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

The bees were already humming about the straw-bound hives along the garden wall, and a misguided green woodpecker clung upside down to the eaves, and thumped at the beams of the house.

From Master Skylark by John Bennett

The birds seen were the jay, barbet, red-and-black-headed, variegated short-wing, large ditto of Khegumpa, orange-breasted Trochilus, brown Fringilla, green woodpecker, black pheasant, and small squirrel of Assam was also found.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith

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