yawker bird

English

Noun

yawker bird (plural yawker birds)

1. The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus
   • 1910, Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture‎^[1], page 280:

     No bird in America has so many local names as the Flicker. Some of these are Highholder, Wake-up, Walk-up, Pigeon, Woodpecker, and Yawker-bird

   • 1960, Science on the March‎^[2], page 36:

     Being a common bird he has a number of names such as high-hole, yellow hammer, golden-winged woodpecker, wakeup, yawker bird, and others.

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Descendants

• yakker (“a curveball or slider”)