page_title: List of birds of Florida
section_title: Woodpeckers
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Florida / Woodpeckers
caption_attribution_description: Sandy Lake, Two Hills County, Alberta
context_page_description: This list of birds of Florida includes species documented in the U.S. state of Florida and accepted by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee. As of December 31, 2018, there were 525 species included in the official list. Of them, 159 species and eight identifiable subspecies are classed as accidental, 14 have been introduced to North America, four are extinct, and one has been extirpated. More than 100 "verifiable...exotic species [are] found free-flying in the wild" according to the FOSRC.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following status codes have been used to annotate some species:
  Accidental - a species that occurs rarely or accidentally in Florida, and for which the FOSRC requests a full report for verification
context_section_description: Order: Piciformes   Family: Picidae
  Woodpeckers are small to medium-sized birds with chisel-like beaks, short legs, stiff tails, and long tongues used for capturing insects. Some species have feet with two toes pointing forward and two backward, while several species have only three toes. Many woodpeckers have the habit of tapping noisily on tree trunks with their beaks.
  Red-headed woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus
  Golden-fronted woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons (A)
  Red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus
  Yellow-bellied sapsucker, Sphyrapicus varius
  Downy woodpecker, Dryobates pubescens
  Red-cockaded woodpecker, Dryobates borealis
  Hairy woodpecker, Dryobates villosus
  Northern flicker, Colaptes auratus
  Pileated woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus
  Ivory-billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis (E)
caption: Yellow-bellied sapsucker
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