Definition of "woodpecker" []

• Any of various usually brightly colored 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. Also called regionally peckerwood. (noun)

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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."
• "It sure looks like it has venemous fangs, which likely means that woodpecker is dead by the time the camera stops rolling."
• "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.”"