Woodpecker Cider Woodpecker Cider Woodpecker Cider is a sweet cider originally made in 1894 by Percy Bulmer in Herefordshire and today brewed by Bulmers. Woodpecker is noted for a lower alcohol content than most other ciders as well as for its sweet taste. It is available in pubs and bars and is sold in bottles or cans. The brand's logo is the European green woodpecker, which is depicted against a bright red background on the cider cans and on most other packaging. The brand appears to be in a state of managed decline, with sales having dropped by almost one third since
Lineated woodpecker Lineated woodpecker The lineated woodpecker ("Dryocopus lineatus") is a very large woodpecker which is a resident breeding bird from Mexico south to northern Argentina and on Trinidad. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the lineated woodpecker in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. He used the French name "Le pic noir hupé de Cayenne" and the Latin name "Picus niger cayanensis cristatus". Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766