The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 241 species of woodpeckers which make up the family Picidae. They are distributed among 36 genera, six of which have only one species. One species, the Bermuda flicker, is extinct. The family's taxonomy is unsettled; the Clements taxonomy lists 235 species and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World lists 254.
This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.