Pileated woodpeckers are the largest woodpeckers in North America. (The previously largest woodpecker was the Mexican ivory-billed woodpecker, Last sighted in an Arkansas swamp forest, and now believed extinct, but some unconfirmed sightings were recorded.)
Pileated woodpeckers have white neck stripes, white underwing coverts, red crests, 6-pointed tail, and jet-black body.
Males are easily told apart from the females, because males have red chins and the females don’t. Now if you understand, can you say if the photo above is a male or female?
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It is a female!
I also added it in my Backyard Guide to Birds book (coming soon).
The first time I saw a pileated woodpecker was in a park with no trails, hopping up a tree. I also put this one on my iNaturalist page.
See the video I took of another Pileated woodpecker pecking on a tree, in a different park.
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