Pileated woodpecker
Male (top) and female (bottom)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Subclass:	Pileatus
Order:	Dryocopus
Family:	Dryocopus Vigors, 1825
Subfamilies
Jynginae – wrynecks, Nesoctitinae – Antillean Piculet, Picinae – woodpeckers, Picumninae – typical piculets

A map

	[[:Image:|call]] [[Image:|180px|noicon]]
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	display drum (a short burst of 10 taps)
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Pileated woodpecker drum

Male Pileated woodpecker drumming

Woodpecker

The woodpeckers and its near relatives the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers are the family Picidae. They are near-passerine birds. Members of the Picidae are found worldwide, except for the parts of old Gondwana which they did not get to: Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar and Antarctica. Most species live in forests or woodland habitats.

The Picidae are just one of the eight living families in the order Piciformes. DNA sequence analyses have shown they are a clade.