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.
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus (A)
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens (A)
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus (A)
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