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| Classification (IOC) | |||
| Govern | Animalia | ||
| Class | Aves | ||
| command | piciformes | ||
| Family | Picidae | ||
| Gender | Dryocopus | ||
| Binomial name (In taxonomy (botany, zoology, etc.) the binomial name or binomial comes from…) | |||
| Dryocopus pilatus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||
| Geographic Distribution | |||
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| IUCN Conservation Status: CL : least of your worries | |||
THE Great woodpecker (Dryocopuspileatus) is a woodpecker native to North America (America is a separate continent, to the west, from Asia and…) (North is a cardinal point, opposite of South.).
Description
It measures 40 to 49 cm long and weighs 250 to 350 g. It is a bird (A bird (or class Aves) is a tetrapod animal belonging to the phylum …) with mainly black plumage with a red crest (The color red responds to different definitions depending on the chromatic system we use …) and a white line running down the sides of the neck (The neck is the body region that sits between the head and the rest of the body…). Males also have red on the forehead and a line that goes from the beak (a beak in the strict sense is an external anatomical structure that allows food intake and …) to the throat, while in females these parts are black. The underside of the wings is white (White is the color of a body heated to about 5000°C (see…). East (Southeast is the direction midway between the southern and easterly cardinal points. Southeast is…) of the United States States and Cuba and its cousin, the Mexican native emperor woodpecker, but these two species are very rare if not extinct.
pair and white wings
Feed
Helmet woodpecker hole in a stem (a stem can be:) of Thuja du Canada
It feeds mainly on insects (Insectes is a French-language ecology and entomology journal intended for a wide audience…) (larvae of beetles and large ants, as well as fruits and berries. It often digs holes in tree trunks ( A tree is a terrestrial plant capable of growing tall by itself in…) to forage for insects.
distribution and lifestyle
It lives in forests with large trees in Canada, the east and part of the Pacific coast of the United States. It usually digs large nests in the trunks of dead trees and usually builds a new nest every year (Nest usually refers to the structure built by the birds to house them…) (A year is a unit of time that the duration between two years expresses occurrences of a linked event…), leaving the previous one blank.
It is generally a sedentary bird.
gallery
 Helmeted Woodpecker at a feeding station. |  |  |  Male feeds young by belching. |
 Young female (In biology, female (from Latin “femella”, little woman, young woman) is the …) |  |  |
Sounds
The call is a flamboyant laugh, similar to that of the flamboyant woodpecker (flamboyant is an ambiguous folk name denoting certain trees of the… in French). Its noise (in the sane sense the word noise is close to the main meaning of the word sound….) of the hammer mechanism as it digs a hole is very sonorous, comparable to that which a hammer would make (hammer can refer to: ).