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Pileated woodpecker
Dryocopus pileatus · Family Picidae
Dryocopus pileatus
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 5,380,417
- Countries and territories with records
- 10
About this species
This species has 5,380,417 occurrence records from 10 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (86.6%) and Canada (13.4%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.42% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dryocopus pileatus combines the genus name Dryocopus with the species epithet pileatus. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Dryocopus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dryocopus martius, Dryocopus lineatus and Dryocopus javensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is 13.4 times the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.