{"id":948,"date":"2022-05-13T20:50:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T00:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jozolabs.us\/?p=948"},"modified":"2022-05-21T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T14:21:57","slug":"all-about-birds-pileated-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jozolabs.us\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"All About Birds: Pileated Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The pileated woodpecker moving up a tree (I took the photo!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pileated woodpeckers are the largest woodpeckers in North America. (The previously largest woodpecker was the Mexican ivory-billed woodpecker<\/a>, Last sighted in an Arkansas swamp forest<\/a>, and now believed extinct, but some unconfirmed sightings were recorded.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pileated woodpeckers have white neck stripes, white underwing coverts, red crests, 6-pointed tail, and jet-black body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a female!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also added it in my Backyard Guide to Birds book (coming soon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the video I took of another Pileated woodpecker pecking on a tree, in a different park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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