pileated woodpecker (Hylatomus pileatus) Dryocopus pileatus
A Pileated Woodpecker 2004-05-29. Photo taken by user Lorax
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The pileated woodpecker (Hylatomus pileatus, formerly 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.
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Hylatomus
Species: Hylatomus pileatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms:
Dryocopus pileatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Picus pileatus (protonym)
