piciform bird

Definitions of piciform bird

1. noun

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

   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

   barbet

   small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings

   puffbird

   brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers

   honey guide

   small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae

   jacamar

   tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage

   toucan

   brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak

   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

   toucanet

   small toucan

   type of:

   bird

   warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings