Pileated Woodpecker

Dryocopus pileatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

287 gWeight

The pileated woodpecker is a large, crow-sized woodpecker with a prominent red crest, white neck stripe, and a mostly black body.

Busiest months: April–May · Most records: United States, Canada

Where and when it's recorded

Pileated Woodpecker has been recorded at 540 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 2 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Audubon Corkscrew Swamp SanctuaryUnited States15,942 records
HUNTLEY MEADOWS PARKUnited States10,199 records
Caw Caw Interpretive CenterUnited States8,798 records

More places

Radnor Lake SPUnited States7,993 records
C&O Canal – Violette's LockUnited States5,902 records
Six Mile Cypress Slough PreserveUnited States5,850 records
Hughes Hollow - McKee Beshers WMAUnited States5,766 records
Sweetwater Wetlands ParkUnited States5,476 records
Mead Botanical GardensUnited States5,064 records
RNF du Cap-TourmenteCanada4,978 records

Countries and regions with the most records

United States Canada

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The pileated woodpecker 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.

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