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Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)
Birds Around Las Vegas, Wildlife Around Las Vegas
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![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_23568a.jpg) |
General Description: Pileated Woodpeckers (Dryocopus pileatus) are very large, black woodpeckers with a red cap and bold white stripes on the face. Males also have a red mustache line. The peaked red cap is distinctive.
Favored Habitat: Coniferous forests. |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_13566a.jpg) |
Where to Find: Don't look for Pileated Woodpeckers around Las Vegas; rather, look for them in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains of California or around Lake Tahoe (or go to Canada or forested areas east of the Great Plains).
Comments: This is the species for whom Woody the Woodpecker was modeled. |
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![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_24410a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpecker male: note the red mustache mark |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_24411a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpecker male: note the red mustache mark |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_24412a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpecker male |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_07065a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpecker female (no red mustache) |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_23564a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpecker female; Dunedin, Florida |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_22055a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpecker female |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_25552a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpecker female |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/DSC_25550a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpeckers sometimes forage on the ground |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/SX280_00565a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpeckers can make large holes in rotten trees |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/SX280_00558a.jpg)
Pileated Woodpeckers probably getting carpenter ants |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/SX280_00557a.jpg) |
![Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)](p-pl/SX280_00559a.jpg) |
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Note: All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate.
; Last updated 240118 |
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