Pileated Woodpeaker

A Pileated Woodpeaker poses perfectly in an old-growth western larch grove, this species favorite habitat. Only large trees offer enough girth to house a nest for Montana's largest woodpecker.
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Except for the probably extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker of the southeastern US and Imperial Woodpecker in western Mexico, the Pileated Woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in North America.