Woodpecker

Description:

Pileated Woodpeckers are roughly seventeen inches long. White head and throat with tall scarlet red crest feathers. A black streak from the nostril, passing over the eyes to the back of the head and down over the shoulders. A red line below the cheek. Black upper and lower parts. Black wings with obscure white markings revealed in flight. Often mistaken for an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, although not quite as large.

Habitat:

Inhabits forests throughout most of North America below 63 degrees latitude, except in the southern Rocky Mountains. Excavates nests from twenty to eighty feet in tall trees such as oaks, sycamore, elms and pines.