woodpecker - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insectspiciform bird - any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood downy woodpecker - small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill flicker - North American woodpecker 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 |