yel·low·ham·mer /ˈjɛloˌhæmɚ/
啄木鳥之一種
Yel·low·ham·mer n. Zool. (a) A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark. [Written also yellow-ammer.] (b) The flicker. [Local, U. S.]
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yellowhammer
n 1: large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and
yellow undersurface to wings and tail [syn: yellow-shafted
flicker, Colaptes auratus]
2: European bunting the male being bright yellow [syn: yellow
bunting, Emberiza citrinella]