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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Example Sentences

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.

The green woodpecker approaches at a rapid pace—now opening, now closing his wings, and seeming to throw himself forward rather than to fly.

From The Amateur Poacher by Jefferies, Richard

The deep silence of the place is only broken by the cooing of the wood-pigeon, and the occasional piercing note of the green woodpecker.

From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by Hughes, William R. (William Richard)