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 33 species which occur in India.
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus
- White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea
- Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Dendrocopos nanus
- Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus
- Brown-fronted Woodpecker Dendrocopos auriceps
- Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos macei
- Spot-breasted Pied Woodpecker Dendrocopos analis (Split by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Stripe-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos atratus
- Yellow-crowned Woodpecker Dendrocopos mahrattensis
- Darjeeling Woodpecker Dendrocopos darjellensis
- Crimson-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos cathpharius
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Sind Woodpecker Dendrocopos assimilis
- Himalayan Woodpecker Dendrocopos himalayensis
- Rufous Woodpecker Celeus brachyurus
- White-bellied Woodpecker Dryocopus javensis
- Andaman Woodpecker Dryocopus hodgei
- Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Hypopicus hyperythrus
- Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus
- Greater Yellownape Picus flavinucha
- Laced Woodpecker Picus vittatus
- Streak-breasted Woodpecker Picus viridanus (Split by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus
- Scaly-bellied Woodpecker Picus squamatus
- Grey-faced Woodpecker Picus canus
- Himalayan Flameback Dinopium shorii
- Common Flameback Dinopium javanense
- Black-rumped Flameback Dinopium benghalense
- White-naped Woodpecker Chrysocolaptes festivus
- Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus
- Pale-headed Woodpecker Gecinulus grantia
- Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis
- Heart-spotted Woodpecker Hemicircus canente
- Great Slaty Woodpecker Mulleripicus pulverulentus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of India
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