Woodpeckers
Pileated Woodpecker
Hylatomus pileatus
The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a large woodpecker native to North America. This crow-sized bird normally inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific coast. It is the second-largest woodpecker in the United States, after the critically endangered and possibly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker.
- Family
- Woodpeckers
- Order
- Piciformes
- Weight
- 287 g
- Habitat
- Forest
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 2