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pecker, peckerwood, woodpecker
bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
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barbet
small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings
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puffbird
brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers
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honey guide
small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae
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jacamar
tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage
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toucan
brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
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Picus viridis, green woodpecker
woodpecker of Europe and western Asia
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downy woodpecker
small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill
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flicker
North American woodpecker
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Campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpecker, ivorybill
large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct
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Melanerpes erythrocephalus, redhead, redheaded woodpecker
black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck
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sapsucker
small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees
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wryneck
Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck
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piculet
small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers
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toucanet
small toucan
