As big as a crow, the pileated woodpecker is the largest member of the woodpecker family in North America. Its name comes from the Latin word pileatus, which means “capped,” alluding to the ...

The world's third largest woodpecker was condemned ... the pileated—which remains common in much of North America. Ivory-billed woodpeckers make a unique double-knock noise when pecking at ...

A woodpecker native to North Carolina that was once seen as being on the cusp of ... with scientists estimating today it represents less than 5% of its original size when the first European settlers ...

in North and Middle America; birds north of Mexico are cactophilus). Length 7". The barred black-and-white back pattern of the ladder-backed woodpecker extends up to the hindneck, with very little ...

The woodpecker once lived across much of the southeastern United States, from Virginia to Florida to Texas, in the region’s formerly extensive long-leaf pine forests — one of the largest and most ...