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 LC    Pileated Woodpecker* Id (Atlas):
    Hylatomus pileatus

Description (10)
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Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
42 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, boreal forest, temperate forerst. From sea-level - 2,300 m.

Range (Guide)
Canada (B), Mexico, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 930,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (204)...)

 
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) [XC390741]
     by Paul Driver from Huckleberry Lookout Trail, GNP, Flathead County, Montana, United States (call)

 
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) [XC210949]
     by James Bradley from Congaree National Park (near Gadsden), Richland County, South Carolina, United States (call, tapping)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Lineated Woodpecker (Hylatomus lineatus) and Black-bodied Woodpecker (Hylatomus schulzii). Variation is mostly clinal. Proposed subspecies picinus (British Columbia) and floridanus (Florida) considered not to differ significantly from, respectively, abieticola and nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • abieticola (Bangs, 1898)   -  Southern British Columbia eastern across southern Canada to Nova Scotia, south to north-western and central-eastern California, central Idaho, western Montana, central Saskatchewan, south-eastern Iowa and about Virginia.
  • pileatus (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  South-eastern USA, from approximately Illinois east to Virginia and south to south-eastern Texas and Florida.



References
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Files:
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