Woodpeckers and Allies
Order: Piciformes. Family: Picidae
Woodpeckers are small to medium sized birds with chisel like beaks, short legs, stiff tails and long tongues used for capturing insects. Some species have feet with two toes pointing forward, and two backward, while several species have only three toes. Many woodpeckers have the habit of tapping noisily on tree trunks with their beaks. There are 218 species worldwide and 14 species which occur in Russia.
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Gray-capped Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus
- Pygmy Woodpecker Dendrocopos kizuki
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor
- Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus
- Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos medius
- White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopos syriacus
- White-winged Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucopterus
- Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus
- Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius
- European Green Woodpecker Picus viridis
- Gray-faced Woodpecker Picus canus
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