Les Picidés sont des oiseaux de la taille d'un moineau à celle d'une corneille. Ils sont adaptés morphologiquement à la vie arboricole. Leurs pattes solides sont pourvues de quatre longs doigts (rarement trois) terminés de griffes puissantes, deux tournés vers l'avant et deux vers l'arrière, facilitant la préhension des troncs et des branches. La queue possède des rectrices cornées très rigides et pointues qui leur servent de point d'appui bas pour le corps dans leur station verticale le long d'un tronc ou d'une branche. Ils ont un bec droit, tronqué et tranchant à son extrémité. Ils s'en servent pour creuser le bois mort ou vivant pour trouver leur nourriture ou creuser leur loge de nidification. Les espèces se nourrissant au sol s'en servent pour creuser le sol et accéder à leurs proies. Ce sont des insectivores qui ont une langue étroite et démesurée, enroulée au repos dans une gaine qui contourne le cerveau, et qu'ils déploient lorsqu'ils se nourrissent. Cette langue très tactile est collante et munie de petits crochets à son extrémité. Les pics enfilent leur langue dans les galeries du bois ou du sol pour en extirper les insectes et leurs larves qui s'y trouvent. Des adaptations extrêmes donc dans cette famille d'oiseaux.
Nom commun | Nom scientifique | Nom anglais |
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Torcol fourmilier | Jynx torquilla | Eurasian Wryneck |
Torcol à gorge rousse | Jynx ruficollis | Red-throated Wryneck |
Picumne tacheté | Picumnus innominatus | Speckled Piculet |
Picumne barré | Picumnus aurifrons | Bar-breasted Piculet |
Picumne de Lafresnaye | Picumnus lafresnayi | Lafresnaye's Piculet |
Picumne de l'Orénoque | Picumnus pumilus | Orinoco Piculet |
Picumne de Buffon | Picumnus exilis | Golden-spangled Piculet |
Picumne de Sclater | Picumnus sclateri | Ecuadorian Piculet |
Picumne squamulé | Picumnus squamulatus | Scaled Piculet |
Picumne à ventre blanc | Picumnus spilogaster | White-bellied Piculet |
Picumne de Cayenne | Picumnus minutissimus | Arrowhead Piculet |
Picumne ocellé | Picumnus pygmaeus | Spotted Piculet |
Picumne perlé | Picumnus steindachneri | Speckle-chested Piculet |
Picumne des varzéas | Picumnus varzeae | Varzea Piculet |
Picumne frangé | Picumnus cirratus | White-barred Piculet |
Picumne d'Orbigny | Picumnus dorbignyanus | Ocellated Piculet |
Picumne de Temminck | Picumnus temminckii | Ochre-collared Piculet |
Picumne noir et blanc | Picumnus albosquamatus | White-wedged Piculet |
Picumne à nuque rousse | Picumnus fuscus | Rusty-necked Piculet |
Picumne à ventre roux | Picumnus rufiventris | Rufous-breasted Piculet |
Picumne ocré | Picumnus limae | Ochraceous Piculet |
Picumne strié | Picumnus nebulosus | Mottled Piculet |
Picumne de Castelnau | Picumnus castelnau | Plain-breasted Piculet |
Picumne de Cuzco | Picumnus subtilis | Fine-barred Piculet |
Picumne olivâtre | Picumnus olivaceus | Olivaceous Piculet |
Picumne gris | Picumnus granadensis | Greyish Piculet |
Picumne cannelle | Picumnus cinnamomeus | Chestnut Piculet |
Picumne de Verreaux | Verreauxia africana | African Piculet |
Picumne roux | Sasia abnormis | Rufous Piculet |
Picumne à sourcils blancs | Sasia ochracea | White-browed Piculet |
Picumne des Antilles | Nesoctites micromegas | Antillean Piculet |
Pic trapu | Hemicircus concretus | Grey-and-buff Woodpecker |
Pic canente | Hemicircus canente | Heart-spotted Woodpecker |
Pic dominicain | Melanerpes candidus | White Woodpecker |
Pic de Lewis | Melanerpes lewis | Lewis's Woodpecker |
Pic de la Guadeloupe | Melanerpes herminieri | Guadeloupe Woodpecker |
Pic de Porto Rico | Melanerpes portoricensis | Puerto Rican Woodpecker |
Pic à tête rouge | Melanerpes erythrocephalus | Red-headed Woodpecker |
Pic glandivore | Melanerpes formicivorus | Acorn Woodpecker |
Pic à chevron d'or | Melanerpes cruentatus | Yellow-tufted Woodpecker |
Pic à front jaune | Melanerpes flavifrons | Yellow-fronted Woodpecker |
Pic masqué | Melanerpes chrysauchen | Golden-naped Woodpecker |
Pic splendide | Melanerpes pulcher | Beautiful Woodpecker |
Pic de Pucheran | Melanerpes pucherani | Black-cheeked Woodpecker |
Pic des cactus | Melanerpes cactorum | White-fronted Woodpecker |
Pic d'Hispaniola | Melanerpes striatus | Hispaniolan Woodpecker |
Pic de la Jamaïque | Melanerpes radiolatus | Jamaican Woodpecker |
Pic élégant | Melanerpes chrysogenys | Golden-cheeked Woodpecker |
Pic alezan | Melanerpes hypopolius | Grey-breasted Woodpecker |
Pic du Yucatan | Melanerpes pygmaeus | Yucatan Woodpecker |
Pic à couronne rouge | Melanerpes rubricapillus | Red-crowned Woodpecker |
Pic des saguaros | Melanerpes uropygialis | Gila Woodpecker |
Pic de Hoffmann | Melanerpes hoffmannii | Hoffmann's Woodpecker |
Pic à front doré | Melanerpes aurifrons | Golden-fronted Woodpecker |
Pic de Santa Cruz | Melanerpes santacruzi | Velasquez's Woodpecker |
Pic à ventre roux | Melanerpes carolinus | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Pic à sourcils noirs | Melanerpes superciliaris | West Indian Woodpecker |
Pic de Williamson | Sphyrapicus thyroideus | Williamson's Sapsucker |
Pic maculé | Sphyrapicus varius | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
Pic à nuque rouge | Sphyrapicus nuchalis | Red-naped Sapsucker |
Pic à poitrine rouge | Sphyrapicus ruber | Red-breasted Sapsucker |
Pic poignardé | Xiphidiopicus percussus | Cuban Green Woodpecker |
Pic tacheté | Pardipicus nivosus | Buff-spotted Woodpecker |
Pic à oreillons bruns | Pardipicus caroli | Brown-eared Woodpecker |
Pic laboureur | Geocolaptes olivaceus | Ground Woodpecker |
Pic à taches noires | Campethera punctuligera | Fine-spotted Woodpecker |
Pic de Bennett | Campethera bennettii | Bennett's Woodpecker |
Pic de Reichenow | Campethera scriptoricauda | Speckle-throated Woodpecker |
Pic de Nubie | Campethera nubica | Nubian Woodpecker |
Pic à queue dorée | Campethera abingoni | Golden-tailed Woodpecker |
Pic de Mombasa | Campethera mombassica | Mombasa Woodpecker |
Pic tigré | Campethera notata | Knysna Woodpecker |
Pic barré | Campethera maculosa | Little Green Woodpecker |
Pic de Cailliaut | Campethera cailliautii | Little Spotted Woodpecker |
Pic de Tullberg | Campethera tullbergi | Tullberg's Woodpecker |
Pic à raies fines | Campethera taeniolaema | Fine-banded Woodpecker |
Pic de Temminck | Yungipicus temminckii | Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker |
Pic à calotte brune | Yungipicus nanus | Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker |
Pic à coiffe grise | Yungipicus canicapillus | Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker |
Pic des Philippines | Yungipicus maculatus | Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker |
Pic de Ramsay | Yungipicus ramsayi | Sulu Pygmy Woodpecker |
Pic nain | Yungipicus moluccensis | Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker |
Pic kisuki | Yungipicus kizuki | Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker |
Pic tridactyle | Picoides tridactylus | Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker |
Pic à dos rayé | Picoides dorsalis | American Three-toed Woodpecker |
Pic à dos noir | Picoides arcticus | Black-backed Woodpecker |
Pic d'Arabie | Dendrocoptes dorae | Arabian Woodpecker |
Pic à tête jaune | Dendrocoptes auriceps | Brown-fronted Woodpecker |
Pic mar | Dendrocoptes medius | Middle Spotted Woodpecker |
Pic mahratte | Leiopicus mahrattensis | Yellow-crowned Woodpecker |
Pic barbu | Chloropicus namaquus | Bearded Woodpecker |
Pic à couronne d'or | Chloropicus xantholophus | Yellow-crested Woodpecker |
Pic à ventre de feu | Chloropicus pyrrhogaster | Fire-bellied Woodpecker |
Pic gris | Dendropicos elachus | Little Grey Woodpecker |
Pic à poitrine tachetée | Dendropicos poecilolaemus | Speckle-breasted Woodpecker |
Pic d'Abyssinie | Dendropicos abyssinicus | Abyssinian Woodpecker |
Pic cardinal | Dendropicos fuscescens | Cardinal Woodpecker |
Pic du Gabon | Dendropicos gabonensis | Gabon Woodpecker |
Pic à raies noires | Dendropicos lugubris | Melancholy Woodpecker |
Pic de Stierling | Dendropicos stierlingi | Stierling's Woodpecker |
Pic d'Elliott | Dendropicos elliotii | Elliot's Woodpecker |
Pic goertan | Dendropicos goertae | African Grey Woodpecker |
Pic spodocéphale | Dendropicos spodocephalus | Eastern Grey Woodpecker |
Pic olive | Dendropicos griseocephalus | Olive Woodpecker |
Pic à dos brun | Dendropicos obsoletus | Brown-backed Woodpecker |
Pic de Nuttall | Dryobates nuttallii | Nuttall's Woodpecker |
Pic arlequin | Dryobates scalaris | Ladder-backed Woodpecker |
Pic mineur | Dryobates pubescens | Downy Woodpecker |
Pic à plastron rouge | Dryobates cathpharius | Crimson-naped Woodpecker |
Pic de Perny | Dryobates pernyii | Necklaced Woodpecker |
Pic épeichette | Dryobates minor | Lesser Spotted Woodpecker |
Pic passerin | Veniliornis passerinus | Little Woodpecker |
Pic étoilé | Veniliornis frontalis | Dot-fronted Woodpecker |
Pic aspergé | Veniliornis spilogaster | White-spotted Woodpecker |
Pic varié | Veniliornis mixtus | Checkered Woodpecker |
Pic bûcheron | Veniliornis lignarius | Striped Woodpecker |
Pic rubin | Veniliornis callonotus | Scarlet-backed Woodpecker |
Pic à ventre jaune | Veniliornis dignus | Yellow-vented Woodpecker |
Pic à ventre barré | Veniliornis nigriceps | Bar-bellied Woodpecker |
Pic rougeâtre | Veniliornis sanguineus | Blood-colored Woodpecker |
Pic à croupion rouge | Veniliornis kirkii | Red-rumped Woodpecker |
Pic affin | Veniliornis affinis | Red-stained Woodpecker |
Pic du Chocó | Veniliornis chocoensis | Choco Woodpecker |
Pic de Cassin | Veniliornis cassini | Golden-collared Woodpecker |
Pic à oreilles d'or | Veniliornis maculifrons | Yellow-eared Woodpecker |
Pic à face blanche | Leuconotopicus borealis | Red-cockaded Woodpecker |
Pic enfumé | Leuconotopicus fumigatus | Smoky-brown Woodpecker |
Pic d'Arizona | Leuconotopicus arizonae | Arizona Woodpecker |
Pic de Strickland | Leuconotopicus stricklandi | Strickland's Woodpecker |
Pic chevelu | Leuconotopicus villosus | Hairy Woodpecker |
Pic à tête blanche | Leuconotopicus albolarvatus | White-headed Woodpecker |
Pic à ventre fauve | Dendrocopos hyperythrus | Rufous-bellied Woodpecker |
Pic de Macé | Dendrocopos macei | Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker |
Pic à ventre tireté | Dendrocopos analis | Freckle-breasted Woodpecker |
Pic à poitrine rayée | Dendrocopos atratus | Stripe-breasted Woodpecker |
Pic de Darjiling | Dendrocopos darjellensis | Darjeeling Woodpecker |
Pic de l'Himalaya | Dendrocopos himalayensis | Himalayan Woodpecker |
Pic du Sind | Dendrocopos assimilis | Sind Woodpecker |
Pic syriaque | Dendrocopos syriacus | Syrian Woodpecker |
Pic à ailes blanches | Dendrocopos leucopterus | White-winged Woodpecker |
Pic épeiche | Dendrocopos major | Great Spotted Woodpecker |
Pic d'Okinawa | Dendrocopos noguchii | Okinawa Woodpecker |
Pic à dos blanc | Dendrocopos leucotos | White-backed Woodpecker |
Pic à ailes rousses | Piculus simplex | Rufous-winged Woodpecker |
Pic bridé | Piculus callopterus | Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker |
Pic à gorge blanche | Piculus leucolaemus | White-throated Woodpecker |
Pic de Lita | Piculus litae | Lita Woodpecker |
Pic à gorge jaune | Piculus flavigula | Yellow-throated Woodpecker |
Pic vert-doré | Piculus chrysochloros | Golden-green Woodpecker |
Pic à bandeaux | Piculus aurulentus | Yellow-browed Woodpecker |
Pic or-olive | Colaptes rubiginosus | Golden-olive Woodpecker |
Pic à ailes bronzées | Colaptes aeruginosus | Bronze-winged Woodpecker |
Pic à tête grise | Colaptes auricularis | Grey-crowned Woodpecker |
Pic de Rivoli | Colaptes rivolii | Crimson-mantled Woodpecker |
Pic à cou noir | Colaptes atricollis | Black-necked Woodpecker |
Pic de Cayenne | Colaptes punctigula | Spot-breasted Woodpecker |
Pic vert et noir | Colaptes melanochloros | Green-barred Woodpecker |
Pic flamboyant | Colaptes auratus | Northern Flicker |
Pic du Guatemala | Colaptes mexicanoides | Guatemalan Flicker |
Pic chrysoïde | Colaptes chrysoides | Gilded Flicker |
Pic des Bermudes | Colaptes oceanicus | Bermuda Flicker |
Pic de Fernandina | Colaptes fernandinae | Fernandina's Flicker |
Pic du Chili | Colaptes pitius | Chilean Flicker |
Pic des rochers | Colaptes rupicola | Andean Flicker |
Pic champêtre | Colaptes campestris | Campo Flicker |
Pic cannelle | Celeus loricatus | Cinnamon Woodpecker |
Pic ondé | Celeus undatus | Waved Woodpecker |
Pic roux | Celeus castaneus | Chestnut-colored Woodpecker |
Pic mordoré | Celeus elegans | Chestnut Woodpecker |
Pic à tête pâle | Celeus lugubris | Pale-crested Woodpecker |
Pic ocré | Celeus flavescens | Blond-crested Woodpecker |
Pic à ventre ocre | Celeus ochraceus | Ochre-backed Woodpecker |
Pic jaune | Celeus flavus | Cream-colored Woodpecker |
Pic à tête rousse | Celeus spectabilis | Rufous-headed Woodpecker |
Pic d'O'Brien | Celeus obrieni | Kaempfer's Woodpecker |
Pic à cravate noire | Celeus torquatus | Ringed Woodpecker |
Pic casqué | Celeus galeatus | Helmeted Woodpecker |
Pic lucifer | Dryocopus schulzii | Black-bodied Woodpecker |
Pic ouentou | Dryocopus lineatus | Lineated Woodpecker |
Grand Pic | Dryocopus pileatus | Pileated Woodpecker |
Pic à ventre blanc | Dryocopus javensis | White-bellied Woodpecker |
Pic des Andaman | Dryocopus hodgei | Andaman Woodpecker |
Pic noir | Dryocopus martius | Black Woodpecker |
Pic puissant | Campephilus pollens | Powerful Woodpecker |
Pic resplendissant | Campephilus splendens | Splendid Woodpecker |
Pic superbe | Campephilus haematogaster | Crimson-bellied Woodpecker |
Pic à cou rouge | Campephilus rubricollis | Red-necked Woodpecker |
Pic robuste | Campephilus robustus | Robust Woodpecker |
Pic de Malherbe | Campephilus melanoleucos | Crimson-crested Woodpecker |
Pic à bec clair | Campephilus guatemalensis | Pale-billed Woodpecker |
Pic de Guayaquil | Campephilus gayaquilensis | Guayaquil Woodpecker |
Pic à dos crème | Campephilus leucopogon | Cream-backed Woodpecker |
Pic de Magellan | Campephilus magellanicus | Magellanic Woodpecker |
Pic à bec ivoire | Campephilus principalis | Ivory-billed Woodpecker |
Pic impérial | Campephilus imperialis | Imperial Woodpecker |
Pic minium | Chrysophlegma miniaceum | Banded Woodpecker |
Pic gorgeret | Chrysophlegma mentale | Checker-throated Woodpecker |
Pic à nuque jaune | Chrysophlegma flavinucha | Greater Yellownape |
Pic à huppe jaune | Picus chlorolophus | Lesser Yellownape |
Pic grenadin | Picus puniceus | Crimson-winged Woodpecker |
Pic verdâtre | Picus viridanus | Streak-breasted Woodpecker |
Pic médiastin | Picus vittatus | Laced Woodpecker |
Pic striolé | Picus xanthopygaeus | Streak-throated Woodpecker |
Pic écaillé | Picus squamatus | Scaly-bellied Woodpecker |
Pic awokéra | Picus awokera | Japanese Green Woodpecker |
Pic vert | Picus viridis | European Green Woodpecker |
Pic de Sharpe | Picus sharpei | Iberian Green Woodpecker |
Pic de Levaillant | Picus vaillantii | Levaillant's Woodpecker |
Pic de Rabier | Picus rabieri | Red-collared Woodpecker |
Pic à tête noire | Picus erythropygius | Black-headed Woodpecker |
Pic cendré | Picus canus | Grey-headed Woodpecker |
Pic de Dedem | Picus dedemi | Sumatran Woodpecker |
Pic de Shore | Dinopium shorii | Himalayan Flameback |
Pic à dos rouge | Dinopium javanense | Common Flameback |
Pic d'Everett | Dinopium everetti | Spot-throated Flameback |
Pic du Bengale | Dinopium benghalense | Black-rumped Flameback |
Pic de Lichtenstein | Dinopium psarodes | Red-backed Flameback |
Pic vigoureux | Chrysocolaptes validus | Orange-backed Woodpecker |
Pic sultan | Chrysocolaptes lucidus | Buff-spotted Flameback |
Pic de Luçon | Chrysocolaptes haematribon | Luzon Flameback |
Pic à face jaune | Chrysocolaptes xanthocephalus | Yellow-faced Flameback |
Pic à face rouge | Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus | Red-headed Flameback |
Pic de Java | Chrysocolaptes strictus | Javan Flameback |
Pic à dos cramoisi | Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus | Greater Flameback |
Pic de Malabar | Chrysocolaptes socialis | Malabar Flameback |
Pic du Sri Lanka | Chrysocolaptes stricklandi | Crimson-backed Flameback |
Pic de Goa | Chrysocolaptes festivus | White-naped Woodpecker |
Pic grantia | Gecinulus grantia | Pale-headed Woodpecker |
Pic des bambous | Gecinulus viridis | Bamboo Woodpecker |
Pic oriflamme | Gecinulus rafflesii | Olive-backed Woodpecker |
Pic porphyroïde | Blythipicus rubiginosus | Maroon Woodpecker |
Pic à oreillons rouges | Blythipicus pyrrhotis | Bay Woodpecker |
Pic brun | Micropternus brachyurus | Rufous Woodpecker |
Pic à croupion fauve | Meiglyptes grammithorax | Buff-rumped Woodpecker |
Pic strihup | Meiglyptes tristis | Zebra Woodpecker |
Pic à jugulaire | Meiglyptes jugularis | Black-and-buff Woodpecker |
Pic tukki | Meiglyptes tukki | Buff-necked Woodpecker |
Pic fauve | Mulleripicus fulvus | Ashy Woodpecker |
Pic en deuil | Mulleripicus funebris | Northern Sooty Woodpecker |
Pic fuligineux | Mulleripicus fuliginosus | Southern Sooty Woodpecker |
Pic meunier | Mulleripicus pulverulentus | Great Slaty Woodpecker |