Woodpeckers and Sapsuckers
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.
- Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus
- Black-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani
- Yucatan Woodpecker Melanerpes pygmaeus
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris
- Smoky-brown Woodpecker Veniliornis fumigatus
- Golden-olive Woodpecker Piculus rubiginosus
- Chestnut-colored Woodpecker Celeus castaneus
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Pale-billed Woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis
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