A watercolor drawing of a pileated woodpecker. The bird is depicted hanging vertically against a tree, as you often see this species of bird doing. You can see the bird from the side which makes its profile stand out nicely. This is a male bird, which can be seen by the lower stripe on its head which is red. The background is a blue spotted watercolor texture.
The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a large, mostly black woodpecker native to North America. It is an insect eater and lives in deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada and parts of the Pacific coast. It is the largest extant woodpecker species in. It is also the third largest woodpecker species in the world, after the great slaty woodpecker and the black woodpecker. "Pileated" refers to the bird's prominent red crest, from the Latin pileatus meaning "capped"
Pileated woodpeckers are primarily black with a red crest and have a white line along the sides of the throat. Younger specimens usually have less curved crests, or "cockscombs," as some refer to them. In flight, they show white on the wings. The flight of these birds is strong and direct, but undulates in the manner characteristic of woodpeckers. Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat; in adult females these are black.
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