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 11 species which occur in Sierra Leone.
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Campethera nivosa
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Campethera caroli
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Gabon Woodpecker Dendropicos gabonensis
- Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris
- Fire-bellied Woodpecker Dendropicos pyrrhogaster
- Gray Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Sierra Leone
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