Did you know woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers ? (Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar and the extreme polar regions.)

Did you know there are roughly 240 to 250 species of woodpeckers worldwide ?

Did you know the world's smallest woodpecker is the bar-breasted piculet found in northern South America and this tiny bird measures just 3 inches in length and weighs a mere 8 to 10 grams and for comparison the largest largest confirmed woodpecker in the world that is still indisputably in existence today is the Great Slaty Woodpecker an Asian species measuring up to 20 inches in length ?

Did you know the woodpecker is able to peck 20 times per second ? (It produces between 10,000 and 12,000 pecks per day. Both males and females are able to drum the trees. Since woodpeckers do not have vocal cords, this activity also play important role in communication.)

Did you know a woodpecker's tongue acts as a "seat belt" or shock-absorbing cushion for its brain by wrapping around the back of its skull ? (The tongue, supported by a long hyoid bone, splits in two, passes between the eyes, over the top of the head, and connects behind the skull/nasal passages.)