peckerwood

/ˈpɛkərˌwʊd/

Other forms: peckerwoods

Definitions of peckerwood

1. noun

   bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
   synonyms: pecker, woodpecker

   types:

   Picus viridis, green woodpecker

   woodpecker of Europe and western Asia

   downy woodpecker

   small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill

   flicker

   North American woodpecker

   Campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpecker, ivorybill

   large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct

   Melanerpes erythrocephalus, redhead, redheaded woodpecker

   black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck

   sapsucker

   small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees

   wryneck

   Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck

   piculet

   small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers

   Colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker, yellowhammer

   large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail

   Colaptes chrysoides, gilded flicker

   southwestern United States bird like the yellow-shafted flicker but lacking the red neck

   Colaptes caper collaris, red-shafted flicker

   western United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tail

   Sphyrapicus varius, yellow-bellied sapsucker

   eastern North American sapsucker having a pale yellow abdomen

   Sphyrapicus varius ruber, red-breasted sapsucker

   western North American sapsucker

   type of:

   piciform bird

   any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood