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 9 species which occur in Senegal.
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Campethera nivosa
- Little Gray Woodpecker Dendropicos elachus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Gray Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Senegal
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