#Picidae

[herpsandbirds]

can we see some northern flickers please :) ? i think more people need to see them bes o pretty

GET ABSOLUTELY FLICKED BOOBOO!!!

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), male, family Picidae, order Piciformes, found across most of North America

photograph by Lee Hunter

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), mother with chicks, family Picidae, order Piciformes, western US

photograph by Protik Hossein

Northern Flicker aka Common Flicker (Colaptes auratus), male, family Picidae, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

photograph by @changingfocusphotography

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), male, family Picidae, order Piciformes, BC, Canada

photograph by Jess Findlay (@jessfindlay)

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), male, family Picidae, Alberta, Canada

photograph by Lisa M Jones Photography

[birdblues]

Heart-spotted Woodpecker

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Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus)

© Aidan Brubaker

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Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)

© Matt Zuro

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Oh they’re so beautiful! The Dickensian Christmas Caroler outfit! I truly adore them, and every summer I am so excited to see them again in my parents’ part of the state!

Happy Holidays!!!❤️☃️ Enjoy this festive-colored birb! The Lewis’s woodpecker :D

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[2721/11080] Cream-backed woodpecker - Campephilus leucopogon

Order: Piciformes Suborder: Pici Family: Picidae (woodpeckers) Subfamily: Picinae (true woodpeckers)

Photo credit: Luis Piñeyrua via Macaulay Library

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Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

© Marc FASOL

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A leucistic acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) in California, USA

by Robin Gwen Agarwal

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Spot-breasted Woodpecker Colaptes punctigula

7/12/2024 Caldas, Colombia

brewmaster via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC

[herpsandbirds]

Cinnamon Woodpecker (Celeus loricatus), male, family Picidae, order Piciformes, Panama

photograph by marlin harms

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

How much wood can a woodpecker peck when a woodpecker pecks wood? The answer: quite a lot! Woodpeckers are able to peck a single spot up to 20 times per second. What's more, each peck has a g-force of about 1,200-1,400 g; the equivalent of going from 26,000 mph (41,800 kph) to a complete stop in a single second.

(An acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) by Gavin Emmons; you can read more about acorn woodpeckers here!)

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[birdblues]

Northern Flicker

[fullfrontalbirds]

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)

© David Assmann

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