WordNet
redheaded woodpecker
n. black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck [syn: redhead, Melanerpes erythrocephalus]
Usage examples of "redheaded woodpecker".
Charlie pointed out particular birds: cedar waxwings feeding on red berries in a chokecherry tree, a redheaded woodpecker tat-tatting away on a dead oak.
A small redheaded woodpecker, a male with black body and white stripe across its back and wings, was thwacking its beak industriously against the siding under the eaves.
I was feeling like a redheaded woodpecker by the time he came to the door.