Piculet
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piculet-299-3536969
title:
Piculet
text:
The piculets are a distinctive subfamily, Picumninae, of small woodpeckers which occur mainly in tropical South America, with just three Asian and one African species. Like the true woodpeckers, piculets have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch o
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Subfamily of birds
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piculet
date created:
date modified:
2023-12-11T11:56:58Z
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