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Unless the recent reports of ivory-billed woodpeckers are correct, the pileated is the largest woodpecker in North America -- as big as a crow, with flashing black-and white wing patterns in flight. They range over much of the continent but are often hard to find, but are quite common in Florida. These birds were photographed in Big Cypress Reserve in south Florida. They were among the hardest species to photograph in flight that I've ever dealt with. Their bounding flap-flap-flap glide... flap-flap-flap glide... wingbeat pattern was extremely challenging to track with a big lens.
Pictures of perched pileateds are here. |
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