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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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

Watching these, a green woodpecker cries in the copse, and immediately afterwards flies across the mead, and away to another plantation.

From Nature Near London by Jefferies, Richard

Rainbird is a local name for the green woodpecker, but as an East-Anglian name it is most likely an imitative form of Fr.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

Another bird, whom I take for a contented fellow, is the green woodpecker, for he goes through life laughing, but I am not quite sure that I should like his taste in jokes. 

From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir