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Genus: Picus (14 species)

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Japanese Green Woodpecker (Picus awokera) Range: PAL: Honshu to Kyushu group (c, s Japan)


Grey-headed Woodpecker (Picus canus canus) Range: PAL, OR: widespread Slovakia
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Lesser Yellownape (Picus chlorolophus) Range: OR: widespread Phukhiao National Park, Chaiyaphum, Thailand
Photograph by Somchai Kanchanasut © All Rights Reserved.

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Sumatran Woodpecker (Picus dedemi) Near Threatened Range: OR: montane Sumatra


Black-headed Woodpecker (Picus erythropygius) Range: OR: se Asia Thailand
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Crimson-winged Woodpecker (Picus puniceus observandus) Male Range: OR: Malay Pen. and Greater Sundas Panti Forest Reserve, Johor, Malaysia
Photograph by Wokoti © All Rights Reserved.

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Red-collared Woodpecker (Picus rabieri) Near Threatened Range: OR: Laos and Vietnam


Iberian Green Woodpecker (Picus sharpei) Range: PAL: Iberian Pen. Casa del Campo, Madrid, Spain
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Found in Spain and Portugal, and the southernmost part of France. Most noticeable difference from the Eurasian Green Woodpecker by lack of a black mask.


Scaly-bellied Woodpecker (Picus squamatus flavirostris) Range: PAL: sc Asia Aliabad, Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
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Levaillant's Woodpecker (Picus vaillantii) Range: AF: Morocco to Tunisia Oukaimeden, Morocco
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Streak-breasted Woodpecker (Picus viridanus) Range: OR: Myanmar to Malay Pen. Thailand
Photograph by Peter R. Steward Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


European Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis viridis) Range: PAL: w England
Photograph by Andy Morffew Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for commercial or non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. My images are available free for any use but must be attributed and not made part of another image without permission. My website link is www.andymorffew.com


Laced Woodpecker (Picus vittatus) Female Range: OR: e Myanmar, s China, Thailand and Indochina to e Sumatra, Lingga Is. (e of c Sumatra), Java, Bali and Kangean Is. (n of Bali)
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Laced Woodpecker (Picus vittatus) Female Range: OR: e Myanmar, s China, Thailand and Indochina to e Sumatra, Lingga Is. (e of c Sumatra), Java, Bali and Kangean Is. (n of Bali)
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Streak-throated Woodpecker (Picus xanthopygaeus) Range: OR: India and Nepal to s Thailand and Cambodia Corbett, India
Photograph by Mikael Bauer © All Rights Reserved.

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