Pileated Woodpecker

This is a year round woodpecker—as large as a crow. I believe it is considered the largest woodpecker in North America—about sixteen to nineteen inches. It's wing span can be as much as thirty inches. I didn't have my telephoto handy so I couldn't really get a close up.

Actually 'bird-lovers' no longer can refer to this as the largest woodpecker because: "A group of wildlife scientists believe the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct. They say they have made seven firm sightings of the bird in central Arkansas. The landmark find caps a search that began more than 60 years ago, after biologists said North America’s largest woodpecker had become extinct in the United States." The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is about twenty-three inches.