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nounbird 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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Definition that contains pecker
- redhead black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck
- flicker North American woodpecker
- sapsucker small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees
- piciformes woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans
- melanerpes erythrocephalus black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck
- wryneck Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck
- tree creeper any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
- green woodpecker woodpecker of Europe and western Asia
- piculet small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers
- campephilus principalis large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct