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Pileated Woodpecker
Dryocopus pileatus

Large woodpecker
Red crest on head
Black body
Size: 16-19 in
Wingspan: 26-30 in
Weight: 8-13 ounces
Sexes similar, male has red crown and forehead and red in black mustache stripe. Female has gray to yellow-brown forehead and no red in mustache stripe

Syllables: pi-le-ate-ed wood-peck-er
Pronunciation: pI li et ed wUd peh kEr



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The Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)
is a very large North American woodpecker. It is also known as the Log Cock (Logcock, and, by corruption, Lord God Bird, Good God Bird, or Great God Bird).

Adults are mainly black with a red crest and a white line down the sides of the throat. Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat and red on the front of the crown. In adult females, these are black. They show white on the wings in flight. The only birds of similar plumage and size are the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, which is extremely rare and was thought extinct until documented sightings and sound recordings in 2004 and 2005, and the Imperial Woodpecker, a bird native to Mexico which is presumed extinct.

Their breeding habitat is forested areas with large trees across Canada, the eastern United States and parts of the Pacific coast. They nest in a large cavity in a dead tree or a dead part of a tree; this bird usually excavates a new home each year, creating habitat for other large cavity nesters.

This bird is usually a permanent resident.

These birds chip out holes, often quite large and roughly rectangular, while searching out insects in trees. They mainly eat insects, especially beetle larvae, carpenter ants, and fruits, berries and nuts.

The call is a wild laugh, similar to the Northern Flicker. This bird favors mature forests, but has adapted to use second-growth stands and heavily wooded parks as well.

Category: Woodpeckers

Pileated Woodpecker

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:   Chordata
Class:   Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family:Picidae
Genus:   Dryocopus
Species:  D. pileatus

Binomial name
Dryocopus pileatus