Pileated woodpecker: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the pileated woodpecker lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Dryocopus pileatus
Group	Woodpeckers, kingfishers, hornbills & toucans
Found in	2 countries
Continents	North America
Mass	11 g (birth weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Piciformes
Family	Picidae

Where does the pileated woodpecker live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the pileated woodpecker in 2 countries and territories across North America.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a pileated woodpecker?

Wikidata records the following for the pileated woodpecker: mass 11 g (birth weight).

What kind of animal is the pileated woodpecker?

The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a bird in the order Piciformes and the family Picidae, genus Dryocopus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the pileated woodpecker

The pileated woodpecker ( PY-lee-ay-tid, PIL-ee-; Dryocopus pileatus) is a large, crow-sized woodpecker with a prominent red crest, white neck stripe, and a mostly black body. This woodpecker is native to North America, where it is the largest confirmed extant woodpecker species and the third-largest extant species of woodpecker in the world, after the great slaty woodpecker and the black woodpecker. It inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific Coast. This woodpecker is primarily an insectivore, eating insects that live in trees; it is famous for making large, nearly rectangular carvings into trees, which are used to extract prey inside the tree or to make a nest. The species has a large range and an increasing population, causing it to be categorized as a species of "least concern" by the IUCN.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Pileated woodpecker (revision 1380700381), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q930712 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).