pileated woodpecker: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	log-cock • Dryocopus pileatus

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Adult male pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) with a bright red crest perched on a tree branch at Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, Florida.

Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) in flight

An adult pileated woodpecker clings to a tree trunk, feeding its two chicks that are peeking out from a nest hole in the tree.

Large oval holes made by a pileated woodpecker are visible in the trunk of a hemlock tree, with wood chips scattered at the base, in a forest in the Adirondack Mountains.

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Dryocopus pileatus pileatus Dryocopus pileatus abieticola