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 6 species which occur in Hong Kong.
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus (A)
- Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus (A)
- Rufous Woodpecker Micropternus brachyurus (A)
- Grey-faced Woodpecker Picus canus (A)
- Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis (A)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Hong Kong
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