yawker bird
English
Noun
yawker bird (plural yawker birds)
- The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus
- 1910, Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, 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, 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”)