What is Woodpecker?
{{Taxobox | name = Woodpeckers | image = PileatedWoodpeckerFeedingonTree, crop.jpg | image2 = Pileated Woodpecker (9597212081), crop.jpg | image2_caption = Male (top) and female (bottom) | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Aves]] | domain = [[Eukaryota]] | subclassis = [[Neornithes]] | ordo = [[Piciformes]] | familia = '''Picidae''' | familia_authority = [[Nicholas Aylward Vigors|Vigors]], 1825 | subdivision_ranks = [[Subfamily|Subfamilies]] | subdivision = [[Jynginae]] – wrynecks, <br />[[Nesoctitinae]] – Antillean Piculet, <br />[[Picinae]] – woodpeckers, <br />[[Picumninae]] – typical piculets }} [[File:Dryocopus pileatus map.svg|right|thumb|250px|A map]] {{Listen|filename=Dryocopus pileatus - Pileated Woodpecker - XC71727.ogg|title=display drum (a short burst of 10 taps)|pos=right|format=[[Ogg]]}} [[File:Dryocopus pileatus (Pileated Woodpecker) 24.jpg|thumb|Pileated woodpecker drum]] [[File:Dryocopus pileatus MP2.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Male Pileated woodpecker drumming]] [[File:Woodpecker 20040529 151837 1c cropped.JPG|upright|thumb|Woodpecker]] The '''woodpeckers''' and its near relatives the [[piculets]], '''wrynecks''' and '''sapsuckers''' are the [[Family (biology)|family]] '''Picidae'''. They are near-[[passerine]] [[bird]]s.<ref>11 families similar to the [[passerine]] birds.</ref> Members of the Picidae are found worldwide, except for the parts of old [[Gondwana]] which they did not get to: [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Madagascar]] and [[Antarctica]]. Most species live in [[forests]] or [[woodland]] habitats. The Picidae are just one of the eight living families in the [[order (biology)|order]] [[Piciformes]]. [[DNA sequence]] analyses have shown they are a [[clade]].<ref name=J>Johansson U.S. & Ericson G.P. 2003. Molecular support for a sister group relationship between Pici and Galbulae (Piciformes sensu Wetmore 1960). ''Journal of Avian Biology''. '''34'''(2): 185-197. {{doi|10.1034/j.1600-048X.2003.03103.x}} [http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021325/