Woodpeckers

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Woodpeckers can be found everywhere on Earth except for Madagascar and Australasia (east of Wallace’s line), and ground-living woodpeckers even occur in treeless areas of the Southern Hemisphere. The woodpeckers family also includes the piculets and wrynecks. Surprisingly, woodpeckers seldom reuse their nest holes, and many other species depend on the old holes for nesting

The family is Picidae.

There are 234 species placed in 33 genera.

So far I have photographed 58 different species. In case I photographed the male and the female I have added a photograph of both.

Of the following genera I did not photograph any specie so far:

Verreauxia with 1 specie

Sasia with 2 species

Nesoctites with 1 specie

Hemicircus with 2 species

Sphyrapicus with 4 species

Xiphidiopicus with 1 specie

Picoides with 3 species

Leiopicus with 1 specie

Dendrocoptes with 3 species

Blythipicus with 2 species

Reinwardtipicus with 1 specie

Micropternus with 1 specie

Meiglyptes with 3 species

Gecinulus with 2 species

Chrysophlegma with 3 species

Geocolaptes with 1 specie

See below the genera of which I photographed at least two specie. At the end, I have placed "Various genera". Here you will find a collection of genera with only one species photographed. To make it easier you can find the genus name combined with the species name (visible when displaying the photograph)

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Updated 26/03/2020

Campephilus with 11 species (4)