Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In Greek and Roman mythology, Picus was a man turned into a woodpecker by Circe for scorning her love. His wife was Canens, a nymph, who killed herself after he was transformed. They had one son, Faunus. Picus is also a genus of woodpecker. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.