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Dryocopus pileatus (Pileated Woodpecker)

Synonyms: Ceophloeus pileatus; Hylatomus pileatus (homotypic); Picus pileatus (homotypic)
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a large woodpecker native to North America. Roughly crow-sized, it normally inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific coast. It is the second largest woodpecker in the United States, after the critically endangered and possibly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker.
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Infraspecies

Dryocopus pileatus abieticola
Dryocopus pileatus pileatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
13
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.91216
EDGE Score: 1.59171
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  290 grams
Birth Weight [3]  11 grams
Female Weight [6]  270 grams
Male Weight [6]  305 grams
Weight Dimorphism [6]  13 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate eastern forests, Temperate western forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate eastern forests, Temperate western forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  70 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  30 %
Forages - Understory [4]  30 %
Forages - Ground [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [7]  3
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Fledging [1]  27 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  2,600,000
Incubation [5]  18 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground display (mostly)
Maximum Longevity [5]  13 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  17 inches (44 cm)
Speed [8]  22.146 MPH (9.9 m/s)
Female Maturity [5]  11 months 24 days
Male Maturity [5]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Accipiter gentilis (Northern Goshawk)[10]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[9]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[10]
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)[9]

Providers

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Capillaria longistriata <Unverified Name>[11]

Range Map

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 6Bull, EL, and JE Jackson. 1995. Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). In A. Poole and F. Gill, editors. The birds of North America, No. 148. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC, USA
♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 8SCALING OF MUSCLE COMPOSITION, WING MORPHOLOGY, AND INTERMITTENT FLIGHT BEHAVIOR IN WOODPECKERS, BRET W. TOBALSKE, The Auk 113(1):151-177, 1996
♦ 9Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 11Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0