List of Birds of China - Woodpeckers and Allies

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 30 species which occur in China.

• Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
• Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus
• White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea
• Gray-capped Woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus
• Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker Dendrocopos kizuki
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor
• Stripe-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos atratus
• Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus
• Darjeeling Woodpecker Dendrocopos darjellensis
• Crimson-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos cathpharius
• White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos
• Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
• White-winged Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucopterus
• Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus
• Rufous Woodpecker Celeus brachyurus
• White-bellied Woodpecker Dryocopus javensis
• Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius
• Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus
• Greater Yellownape Picus flavinucha
• Laced Woodpecker Picus vittatus
• Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus
• Scaly-bellied Woodpecker Picus squamatus
• Red-collared Woodpecker Picus rabieri (A)
• Gray-faced Woodpecker Picus canus
• Himalayan Flameback Dinopium shorii
• Common Flameback Dinopium javanense
• Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus
• Pale-headed Woodpecker Gecinulus grantia
• Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis
• Great Slaty Woodpecker Mulleripicus pulverulentus