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 39 species which occur in Burma.
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus
- Rufous Piculet Sasia abnormis
- White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea
- Gray-capped Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus
- Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos macei
- Stripe-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos atratus
- Yellow-crowned Woodpecker Dendrocopos mahrattensis
- Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus
- Darjeeling Woodpecker Dendrocopos darjellensis
- Crimson-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos cathpharius
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Rufous Woodpecker Celeus brachyurus
- White-bellied Woodpecker Dryocopus javensis
- Banded Woodpecker Picus mineaceus
- Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus
- Crimson-winged Woodpecker Picus puniceus
- Greater Yellownape Picus flavinucha
- Checker-throated Woodpecker Picus mentalis
- Streak-breasted Woodpecker Picus viridanus
- Laced Woodpecker Picus vittatus
- Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus
- Black-headed Woodpecker Picus erythropygius
- Gray-faced Woodpecker Picus canus
- Olive-backed Woodpecker Dinopium rafflesii
- Himalayan Flameback Dinopium shorii
- Common Flameback Dinopium javanense
- Black-rumped Flameback Dinopium benghalense
- Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus
- Pale-headed Woodpecker Gecinulus grantia
- Bamboo Woodpecker Gecinulus viridis
- Maroon Woodpecker Blythipicus rubiginosus
- Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis
- Buff-rumped Woodpecker Meiglyptes tristis
- Black-and-buff Woodpecker Meiglyptes jugularis
- Buff-necked Woodpecker Meiglyptes tukki
- Gray-and-buff Woodpecker Hemicircus concretus
- Heart-spotted Woodpecker Hemicircus canente
- Great Slaty Woodpecker Mulleripicus pulverulentus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Burma
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