Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various birds of the family Picidae, having strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for clinging to and climbing trees and a chisellike bill for drilling through bark and wood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any bird of the large family Picidæ, of which there arc numerous genera and some 250 species, in habiting nearly all parts of the world.
- noun The Californian wood-pecker, Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi.
- noun Specifically, one of these, C. chrysoides, of Arizona, Lower California, and southward, which resembles the common flicker in the body, tail, and wings, but has the head as in the Mexican flicker.
- noun In lumbering, a poor chopper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family
Picidæ . - noun (Zoöl.) a black and white Asiatic hornbill (
Buceros pica ) which resembles a woodpecker in color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of several species of
bird from the familyPicidae , with a sharpbeak suitable forpecking holes inwood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Etymologies
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Yes | No | Report from bookeraptor wrote 6 days 20 hours ago the woodpecker is a Pale-Billed Woodpecker (in the same genus as the Ivory-Billed) from Central America, so that should narrow down what species of snake this is.
Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010
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Yes | No | Report from bookeraptor wrote 6 days 20 hours ago the woodpecker is a Pale-Billed Woodpecker (in the same genus as the Ivory-Billed) from Central America, so that should narrow down what species of snake this is.
Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010
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It sure looks like it has venemous fangs, which likely means that woodpecker is dead by the time the camera stops rolling.
Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010
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My old Audubon Field Guide, twenty-two years old now, same age as my binoculars, says that the red-bellied woodpecker is “chiefly” a Southeastern bird but it ranges farther north and “has expanded its breeding range in recent years to New York and southern New England.”
Boids 2010
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My old Audubon Field Guide, twenty-two years old now, same age as my binoculars, says that the red-bellied woodpecker is “chiefly” a Southeastern bird but it ranges farther north and “has expanded its breeding range in recent years to New York and southern New England.”
Lance Mannion: 2010
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It sure looks like it has venemous fangs, which likely means that woodpecker is dead by the time the camera stops rolling.
Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010
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And what if a high-quality image of the ivory-billed woodpecker is captured?
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Video evidence that an extinct woodpecker is alive and well in Arkansas, USA may prove to be a case of mistaken identity.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Birders systematically memorize field marks like trailing white on the wing to distinguish the resurrected Ivory-billed woodpecker from the pileated.
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A group of wildlife scientists believe the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct.
April 2005 2005
dontcry commented on the word woodpecker
Do NOT get me started...
June 1, 2011
reesetee commented on the word woodpecker
*makes note not to get dontcry started*
June 2, 2011