Woodpeckers and Allies
Piciformes
Nine families of largely arboreal birds make up the order Piciformes (/ˈpɪsɪfɔːrmiːz/), the best-known of them being the Picidae, which includes the woodpeckers and close relatives. The Piciformes contain about 71 living genera with a little over 450 species, of which the Picidae make up about half.
9 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 437 known species
Woodpeckers
familyPicidae
Toucans
familyRamphastidae
Asian Barbets
familyMegalaimidae
African Barbets
familyLybiidae
Puffbirds
familyBucconidae
Jacamars
familyGalbulidae
New World Barbets
familyCapitonidae
Honeyguides
familyIndicatoridae
Toucan-Barbets
familySemnornithidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 17550.