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 26 species which occur in Laos.
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Speckled Piculet Picumnus innominatus
- 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
- Crimson-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos cathpharius
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Rufous Woodpecker Celeus brachyurus
- White-bellied Woodpecker Dryocopus javensis
- Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus
- Greater Yellownape Picus flavinucha
- Laced Woodpecker Picus vittatus
- Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus
- Red-collared Woodpecker Picus rabieri
- Black-headed Woodpecker Picus erythropygius
- Gray-faced Woodpecker Picus canus
- Common Flameback Dinopium javanense
- Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus
- Pale-headed Woodpecker Gecinulus grantia
- Bamboo Woodpecker Gecinulus viridis
- Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis
- Black-and-buff Woodpecker Meiglyptes jugularis
- Heart-spotted Woodpecker Hemicircus canente
- Great Slaty Woodpecker Mulleripicus pulverulentus
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