🐦Woodpeckers & Toucans (Piciformes)

Woodpeckers & Toucans

~450 species

Birds with strong bills adapted for drilling into wood or eating fruit. Includes woodpeckers with shock-absorbing skulls and toucans with oversized colorful bills.

💡Woodpeckers peck at speeds of 20 times per second, and their skulls have spongy bone that absorbs the impact.

2 birds

🐦 woodpecker 🐦 toucan

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