Pileated Woodpecker Images

Pileated Woodpecker Images, Facts and Information:

Dryocopus pileatus

• Pileated Woodpeckers are large with mostly black bodies and have white wing linings. They have red crested heads and caps with white faces and neck stripes, mustache stripes and gray bills. Males have red mustache stripes and females have black. “If” the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is extinct, Pileated Woodpeckers are North America’s largest woodpecker.
• Pileated Woodpeckers are nonmigratory. They can be found in mature forests in many areas of north America but are absent from the desert southwest, the Rocky Mountains and plains states.
• Pileated Woodpeckers feed on ants, beetles, wood boring beetle larvae, fruits and nuts.
• Pileated Woodpeckers lay 3 to 8 eggs which hatch in 15 to 18 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous. They may have as many as 16 holes in a tree that are used as escape routes.
• Pileated Woodpeckers can live to be nine years of age.
• A group of Pileated Woodpeckers can be called a “crown” of woodpeckers.

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