page_title: List of birds of Tamil Nadu
section_title: Woodpeckers
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Tamil Nadu / Woodpeckers
caption_attribution_description: English: Black-rumped Flameback
context_page_description: 578 species of birds have been spotted in Tamil Nadu. The list also sometimes includes the local Tamil name in italics following the English common name. This list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature follow the conventions of the IOC World Bird List, version 10.2. This list also uses British English throughout. Any bird names or other wording follows that convention.
  The following tags have been used to highlight several categories. The commonly occurring native species do not fit within any of these categories.
  Accidental - Also known as a rarity, it refers to a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Kerala-typically less than ten confirmed records.
  (I) Introduced - a species introduced to Tamil Nadu as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions.
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. 
  Eurasian wryneck
  Speckled piculet, pulli maram kothi
  Heart-spotted woodpecker, karumpulli maram kothi
  Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker, sinna maram kothi
  Yellow-crowned woodpecker, manjal netri maram kothi
  White-bellied woodpecker, பெரிய கருப்பு மரங்கோத்தி
  Lesser yellownape, manjal pidari maram kothi
  Streak-throated woodpecker, sethil vayitru maram kothi
  Himalayan flameback (I)
  Common flameback
  Black-rumped flameback
  Greater flameback, peria ponmudhugu maram kothi
  White-naped woodpecker
  Rufous woodpecker, karum sivappu maram kothi
caption: Black-rumped flameback
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