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Though it has a vivid orange-red crown and nape it is not to be confused with the red-headed woodpecker, a separate species of woodpecker in the same genus with an entirely red head and neck that sports a solid black back and white belly. The red-bellied earns its name from the pale reddish tint on its lower underside.
The pileated woodpecker (/ ˈ p aɪ l i eɪ t ə d, ˈ p ɪ l-/ PY-lee-ay-tid, PIL-ee-; Dryocopus pileatus) is a large, mostly black woodpecker native to North America. An insectivore , it inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes , the boreal forests of Canada , and parts of the Pacific Coast .
Golden-naped woodpecker: Melanerpes chrysauchen Salvin, 1870: 42 Beautiful woodpecker: Melanerpes pulcher Sclater, PL, 1870: 43 Black-cheeked woodpecker: Melanerpes pucherani (Malherbe, 1849) 44 White-fronted woodpecker: Melanerpes cactorum (d'Orbigny, 1840) 45 Hispaniolan woodpecker: Melanerpes striatus (Müller, PLS, 1776) 46 Jamaican woodpecker
The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Mulleripicus whose species are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus Dryocopus is a member of the tribe Picini and belongs to a clade that contains five genera: Colaptes , Piculus , Mulleripicus , Dryocopus and Celeus .
A red-bellied woodpecker rests on a branch of a dogwood tree after a winter storm near Knightdale, N.C. on Feb. 17, 2015. Aaron Moody/amoody@newsobserver.com Woodpeckers love this kind of wood, siding
Hispaniolan woodpecker: Melanerpes striatus: Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) Jamaican woodpecker: Melanerpes radiolatus: Jamaica. Golden-cheeked woodpecker: Melanerpes chrysogenys: Mexico Grey-breasted woodpecker: Melanerpes hypopolius: southwestern Mexico. Yucatan woodpecker: Melanerpes pygmaeus: Belize and Mexico Red-crowned ...
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Nine families of largely arboreal birds make up the order Piciformes / ˈ p ɪ s ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /, the best-known of them being the Picidae, which includes the woodpeckers and close relatives.