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 10 species which occur in Iran.
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor
- Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos medius
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopos syriacus
- White-winged Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucopterus
- Sind Woodpecker Dendrocopos assimilis
- Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius
- Scaly-bellied Woodpecker Picus squamatus
- European Green Woodpecker Picus viridis
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Iran
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