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

His love was the shy, green woodpecker, whom he had actually coaxed into nesting in the park.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

W. A little further on I saw a green woodpecker fly to a tree, and run up the trunk like a cat.

From Types of Children's Literature by Barnes, Walter

Thus the English starling will occasionally impose upon and dispossess the green woodpecker.

From My Studio Neighbors by Gibson, William Hamilton