pileated woodpecker

noun

a large, black-and-white American woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, having a prominent red crest.

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85

It could have been a related species, the pileated woodpecker.

The log-cock, or pileated woodpecker, the largest and wildest of our Northern species, I have never heard drum.

Probably red-headed, since the name was misapplied to a specimen of a pileated woodpecker.

The Pileated Woodpecker is a beautiful bird of great size and strength.

Scalps of the great pileated woodpecker or cock-of-the-woods (Ceophlaeus pileatus), called Kisl-tā-ke-'keo, also passed as money.

They can readily be identified, at a great distance, from the Pileated Woodpecker by the large amount of white on the secondaries.

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