Genus Dryocopus was introduced by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie in 1826. However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) places the pileated and several others in genus Hylatomus. The North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society concurs for the pileated and lineated woodpeckers, the only two of the six that occur in Central and North America. The pileated woodpecker is now one of six species that the International Ornithological Committee and the Clements taxonomy place in genus Dryocopus. The specific epithet pileatus is a Latin word meaning "-capped". When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the tenth edition, he included the pileated woodpecker, coined the binomial name Picus pileatus and cited Catesby's book.
Catesby used the English name "The larger red-crested Wood-pecker" and the Latin Picus niger maximus capite rubro. The English naturalist Mark Catesby described and illustrated the pileated woodpecker in his book The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands which was published between 17. "Pileated" refers to the bird's prominent red crest, from the Latin pileatus meaning "capped". It is also the third largest species of woodpecker in the world, after the great slaty woodpecker and the black woodpecker.
Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed be reclassified as extinct. It is the largest confirmed extant woodpecker species in North America, with the possible exception of the ivory-billed woodpecker, which the U.S. An insectivore, it inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific Coast. The pileated woodpecker ( / ˈ p aɪ l i ˌ eɪ t ə d w ʊ d p ɛ k ər, p ɪ-/, Dryocopus pileatus) is a large, mostly black woodpecker native to North America.
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