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FESTIVE GREETINGS TO ALL WOODPECKER LOVERS EVERYWHERE!


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Welcome

This blog focuses on the wrynecks, piculets, sapsuckers, flickers, flamebacks and woodpeckers (Picidae) of the world. Regular topics will include:
Genus,
Habitats,
Literature,
Picid in Focus,
Sounds,
Status.
All comments and suggestions are welcome. Photographs and video clips will also be gratefully accepted and any used will be credited. The aim is to be a user-friendly and free resource for all those interested in this fascinating family of birds
Gerard Gorman.

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Campo Flicker Colaptes campestris

Campo Flicker Colaptes campestris
A nest-hole in SE Brazil. This species is highly terrestrial and gregarious.

Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius

Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius
This species can make impressively large, vertical holes in trees when foraging.

Stock Dove Columba oenas

Stock Dove Columba oenas
This Eurasian species is a secondary cavity-user, often nesting in Black Woodpecker holes.
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The Pied Woodpeckers

The Pied Woodpeckers
A monograph on 5 European "black-and-white" species

The Green Woodpecker

The Green Woodpecker
A monograph on Picus viridis

The Wryneck

The Wryneck
A monograph on this unusual woodpecker

Woodpeckers of the World - The Complete Guide

Woodpeckers of the World - The Complete Guide
Published in June 2014.

The Black Woodpecker - a monograph on Dryocopus martius

The Black Woodpecker - a monograph on Dryocopus martius
Gerard Gorman is author of this monograph published by Lynx Edicions in July 2011

Spotlight Woodpeckers

Spotlight Woodpeckers
Gerard Gorman's latest book on woodpeckers in the colourful RSPB Spotlight series

Woodpecker

Woodpecker
Gerard Gorman's contribution to the "bold and fascinating series" of Reaktion books.
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Woodpeckers of the World

Woodpeckers of the World
Cover of the North American edition by Firefly Books.

Woodpeckers of Europe

Woodpeckers of Europe
Gerard Gorman is author of this handbook to Europe's Picidae, published in 2004 by Bruce Coleman, UK (ISBN 1 872842 05 4).

Background

Woodpeckers, the Picidae, are Piciformes, an order that includes some of the oldest avian lineages. The Piciformes probably originated about 60 million years ago in the Tertiary period and became distinct from their closest relatives some 50 million years ago. Depending upon which taxonomy is followed, and the fact that the status of some species is unclear, around 240-260 woodpecker species probably exist globally. The Picidae includes three subfamilies: Jynginae (wrynecks), Picumninae (piculets) and the Picinae, the “true woodpeckers”. In terms of size, behaviour, distribution and the habitats they use, the Picinae are a fairly diverse group of birds with six distinct tribes. They are widespread and found from sea-level to high-altitudes but absent from the Arctic, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Madagascar and some other islands. Worldwide woodpeckers are usually, but not exclusively, associated with trees.

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