Woodpecker Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named woodpecker: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds woodpecker, sapsucker, flicker, piculet, wryneck or peck. CLDR files log and timber under Wood alone, trunk under Leafless tree alone, carpenter under Carpentry saw alone, beak under Black bird alone, rhythm under Long drum alone and plumage under Feather alone; wood has three emoji (Leafless tree, Wood, Axe) and ornithology 17; peck, knock, tap and drill lead to no emoji. That most woodpeckers live in forests or woodland, that the Gila woodpecker lives on cacti, that pecking is mostly for reaching insects and that drumming is communication, mainly a territorial call like a songbird's song, that each species drums its own pattern with a pause between rolls, that hollow trees, gutters and downpipes are used, that woodpeckers nest and roost in holes they dig and that other hole-nesting birds use the old ones, the black, white and red plumage, the long sticky tongue that wraps around prey, the diet of ants, termites, beetles and larvae, tree sap as food for some species, hearing insects inside timber, pecking in short bursts, the membrane that closes over the eye a millisecond before contact, the flap-and-glide flight, the absence from Australasia, Madagascar and Antarctica, the need for dead wood, the helmet designs drawn from woodpecker studies, and Picus as the type genus of the family Picidae are from Wikipedia, Woodpecker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker, CC BY-SA 4.0). That woodpecker is wood plus pecker and displaced the older word speight, and the Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Latin and Turkish words are from Wiktionary, woodpecker (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woodpecker, CC BY-SA 4.0); the two senses of carpintero from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carpintero; picar and pau from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pica-pau; ki and tsutsuku from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/啄木鳥; ağaç and kakan from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ağaçkakan; the two senses of French pic and its Latin source from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pic. The meanings of the Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.