red-cockaded woodpecker

English

Etymology

The male has a small red streak on each side of its black cap called a cockade.

Noun

red-cockaded woodpecker (plural red-cockaded woodpeckers)

  1. Leuconotopicus borealis, a woodpecker of southeastern North America.
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