#piciform

[life-on-our-planet]

🪶🪮curl-crested aracari🪮🪶

[herpsandbirds]

Acorn Woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus), family Picidae, order Piciformes, CA, USA

The individual on the right is amelanistic.

Photograph by Mark Rauzon

[birdblues]

Leucistic Yellow-throated Toucan

[vintagewildlife]

White-winged woodpecker By: John Hartley From: Gerald & Lee Durrell in Russia 1986

[birds--daily]

day 40

today's bird is the yellow-bellied sapsucker!

- the yellow-bellied sapsucker makes two different types of holes in trees: deep, round holes and shallow, square holes. square holes produce more sap and must be maintained continuously

- in some parts of canada, ruby-throated hummingbirds rely so heavily on sapsucker-created sapwells that they time their spring migrations with the arrival of the sapsuckers

- the yellow-bellied sapsucker's favorite trees are birches and maples!

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Day 12 of January extinct birds - the imperial woodpecker

These are officially classified as CR - possibly extinct... but the hope of them still surviving is pitifully low as almost all viable habitat has been destroyed. These woodpeckers, endemic to Mexico, were enormous, around 60cm in length. They were often seen in small groups that search together for large dead trees to extract bugs from. Because of their size, they needed large amounts of habitat and were also targeted by loggers for fear of them ruining timber.

[alonglistofbirds]

[2725/11080] Cream-coloured woodpecker - Celeus flavus

Order: Piciformes Suborder: Pici Family: Picidae (woodpeckers) Subfamily: Picinae (true woodpecker)

Photo credit: Hernán Álvarez via Macaulay Library

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Spectember 2024 #03: Terrible Toucan

This concept comes from @thecomiccreator who suggested a "carnivorous/omnivorous toucan":

Descended from toco toucans inhabiting savanna grasslands, Deinotukan auctorcomicus is a large stork-like bird standing about 1.2m tall (~4').

Unlike its mostly-frugivorous ancestors it's primarily a scavenger, soaring on thermals with its long broad wings and following vultures towards sources of carrion. Its massive serrated beak allows it to efficiently open up tough-skinned carcasses, and with its nostrils positioned up near its eyes it can probe around inside much deeper than other scavengers while still being able to breathe.

It also opportunistically hunts live prey, especially during the breeding season while raising chicks, slowly stalking around on foot snatching up anything small enough to fit in its mouth and be swallowed whole.

Its beak contains an extensive network of blood vessels, which along with the large surface area make it an effective way of shedding excess heat in its hot tropical habitat – but when soaring at high altitudes where temperatures are near-freezing it's also able to shunt blood flow away from its beak to conserve body heat instead.

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

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[snototter]

An emerald toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) at the foot of Volcán Tolimán, Guatemala

by Oleg Chernyshov

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Day 14 of Pied Month - Pied Puffbird! Originally planned to do bi since it's in the name, but it looks so round so I had to give it the circle of the intersex flag

Reference photo by Francesco Veronesi

I'm on Cara, it's a social media for art that's anti-AI, follow me @ tbalderdash

[herpsandbirds]

Black-billed Mountain-Toucan (Andigena nigrirostris) returning to the nest, family Ramphastidae, order Piciformes, Colombia

photograph by marcello galleano

[spinus-pinus]

Spot-breasted Woodpecker Colaptes punctigula

7/12/2024 Caldas, Colombia

brewmaster via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC

[birdblues]

Heart-spotted Woodpecker

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Birds

Accipitriformes. This order contains most birds of prey: hawks, eagles, vultures, and kites

Piciformes. This order is made up of woodpeckers, which bore holes in trees to reach insect prey within.

[birds--daily]

the yellow-bellied sapsucker wanted me to post this it's from him not me

happy valentine's day! (again)