What is the woodpecker?

Woodpeckers are a type of bird, members of the Piciformes and Family Picidae . Family -related families include Honeyguides, Barbets and Toucans. There are 28 or 29 families and 215 species. Members of the Woodpecker Order often have Woodpecker in their names, but they can also be called blinkers , wrynecks , piculets and Sapsuckers .

Woodpeckers are size and large. The smallest of the woodpeckers are Picumnus aurifrons, bar breasts piculet, live in South America. It weighs 0.25 oz (7 g) and are 3.2 inches (8.13 cm) long. Campephilus imperialis , the imperial data of Mexico - which can now be extinct - is or was the largest of the woodpeckers to 1.2 lb (563 gm) and 1.8 ft (55 cm) long. The diet changes somewhat across species, but includes small insects, spiders, nuts, seeds and berries.

Woodpeckers are primarily arboreal and usually have accounts shaped as chisels and are used for digging grubs from trees and digging nesting holes. Stable “clac, clacK, Clack "Their accounts hit the tree trunk with a sign of many of their presence. Their zygodaclous noy, two of them points forward and two points back and stiff tail turn or tail feathers, helping their perpendicular climbing trees.

The range of woodpeckers is extensive. They can be found throughout South America, Central America and the continental United States, except for a very far north in Alaska. They exist across most of Canada, with the exception of the northernmost regions, across Africa roughly south of the Sahara Desert and in most Europe and Asia. They can be found in Greenland, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Madagascar, the Pacific Islands or in the extremes of polar regions. Some of the wood species are The Downy Woodpecker, a furry woodpecker, yellow -brown Sapsucker, a pilot woodpecker, African piculet, a woodpecker with a black face, a northern flashing and a black woodpecker.

Many types of woodpeckers are in the International Union for PreservationThe Nature (IUCN) of the Red List of 2001. Category IUCN includes three levels of endangered species - vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered - and two levels of extinction: in wild and disappeared. According to these criteria, three species were considered critically endangered; Two would be at risk; and four to be vulnerable. Nine species were listed as "almost endangered", category just before the species is marked as endangered.

One data got into pop culture. Animated cartoon figure Woody Woodpecker® appeared in a number of cartoons and had a portrait in that framed Roger Rabbit? , a 1988 film that combined a live event with the animation of many famous cartoon characters.