Woodpeckers, Barbet and Toucans

• Biology@

• All About Birds: Woodpeckers and Allies  - Identification guide to woodpeckers found in the United States, with life histories and sound clips.
• American Barbets  - Birdwatcher describes his activities watching Barbets, and includes photographs, and pages on Asian and African Barbets, Toucans and Toucan-Barbets.
• Animal Diversity Web: Piciformes  - Illustrations and photographs of the birds within the order, and sound files.
• Barbets to Scimitarbills  - Photographic survey of Asian Barbets, African Barbets, Toucans and New World Barbets.
• Boreal Songbird Initiative: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  - Introduces the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker or Sphyrapicus varius, and provides information on habitat, feeding and behaviour, range, and conservation issues.
• Colorado State University: Preventing Woodpecker Damage  - Article on damage caused by woodpeckers in Colorado, with advice on repellants, exclusion methods, nestboxes and lethal control.
• Defenders of Wildlife: Woodpeckers  - Describes woodpeckers and how they feed, and gives information on species numbers, range, behaviour, threats, and legal protection in the United States.
• Dick Dionne: Woodpeckers, Flickers and Sapsuckers  - Gallery of photographs covering several species of woodpeckers and sapsuckers. Provides links to other galleries featuring the birds.
• The Internet Bird Collection: Barbets (Capitonidae)  - Overview of the family and statistics, plus listings of the various species of Barbets and Tinkerbirds, with further information, photographs and videos.
• Ivory Billed Woodpecker  - Devoted to the largest US woodpecker, until recently thought to be extinct. Includes details of the author's searches, and a link to an analysis of his video showing the Ivory Billed Woodpecker.
• Julie Zickefoose: Ivory-billed Woodpecker  - Natural history writer and artist describes her encounter with an ivorybill, and other sightings.
• North Central Forest Experiment Station: How To  - Presents advice on identifying and controlling sapsucker injury on trees. Shows photographs of typical damage and notes the shooting of sapsuckers is illegal and ineffective.
• Ramphastos Toco  - Project on the bird more commonly known as the toco toucan. With adaptations, reproduction, habitat, interesting facts and advice on keeping the bird as a pet.
• RSPB: Wrynecks and Woodpeckers  - Overview of the family, and details of the species found in the UK.
• Whole Earth Catalog: Sapsuckers at Work  - Explores how sapsuckers are a keystone species essential to a diverse community of species.