North America’s largest woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker has a very large, prominent red crest. In the male, the red color extends forward to the forehead. The male also has a red moustache, the female does not.
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Pileated Woodpecker
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
January 9, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – male adult feeding female chick
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
April 27, 2013©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker chicks (female left, male right)
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
April 27, 2013©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker chicks (female left, male right)
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
April 27, 2013©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – female chick
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
April 27, 2013©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – adult pair
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
April 27, 2013©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
January 9, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – juvenile
Spanish River Park, Boca Raton, FL
May 14, 2008 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – male feeding juvenile
Spanish River Park, Boca Raton, FL
May 14, 2008 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker
Spanish River Park, Boca Raton, FL
May 14, 2008 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – female
Spanish River Park, Boca Raton, FL
May 10, 2009 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – female
Spanish River Park, Boca Raton, FL
May 10, 2009 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – pair
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
February 14, 2005 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – juvenile
Spanish River Park, Boca Raton, FL
May 14, 2008 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – female
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
February 6, 2006 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – female
Spanish River Park, Boca Raton, FL
May 10, 2009 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
January 9, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker – female
Matheson Hammock Park, Coral gables, FL
April 30, 2008 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
February 17, 2006 ©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
January 16, 2013©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker
Loxahatchee NWR, Boynton Beach, FL
January 16, 2013©John Schwarz
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Pileated Woodpecker
Farmington, CT
November 21, 2015 ©John Schwarz
About a year & a half ago I happened to glance out my bedroom window to see one of these Pileated Woodpeckers (did not know what it was at the time but I did recognize that it was a woodpecker) in a tree in my yard. It was HUGE & I had never seen anything like it before or since! I watched it for a while then went for my camera but it took off.