Summary description from Wikipedia:

Picidae in languages:

Afrikaans

Spegte

Bokmål

Spettefamilien

Bokmål

Spetter

Bokmål

Hakkespetter

Bulgarian

Кълвачови

Chinese

啄木鳥科

Czech

datlovití

Danish

Spætter

Dutch

Spechten

English

Woodpeckers

Estonian

Rähnlased

Finnish

tikat

French

Pics, Piculets, Picumnes et Torcols

German

Spechte

Hungarian

harkályok

Indonesian

Burung Pelatuk

Italian

Picchio

Japanese

キツツキ科

Korean

딱따구리과

Latvian

Dzilnas

Latvian

Dzeņi

Lithuanian

Geniniai

Modern Greek

Δρυοκολάπτες

Polish

Dzięciołowate

Portuguese

Pica-paus

Russian

Дятловые

Swedish

hackspettar

Thai

นกหัวขวาน

Ukrainian

Дятлові

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Parent Taxon

• Piciformes

Sibling Taxa

• Capitonidae
• Indicatoridae
• Lybiidae
• Megalaimidae
• Picidae
• Ramphastidae
• Semnornithidae

Child Taxa

• Blythipicus
• Campephilus
• Campethera
• Celeus
• Chloropicus
• Chrysocolaptes
• Chrysophlegma
• Colaptes
• Dendrocopos
• Dendrocoptes
• Dinopium
• Dryobates
• Dryocopus
• Gecinulus
• Geocolaptes
• Hemicircus
• Jynx
• Leiopicus
• Meiglyptes
• Melanerpes
• Micropternus
• Mulleripicus
• Nesoctites
• Picoides
• Piculus
• Picumnus
• Picus
• Reinwardtipicus
• Sasia
• Sphyrapicus
• Verreauxia
• Xiphidiopicus
• Yungipicus

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