Pileated woodpeckers are the magnificent giants of our local head-hammering world. While our most common downy woodpeckers weigh less than an ounce, our pileateds can weigh almost a pound.Worldwide, they’re second in size to only the great slaty woodpeckers of India. The two, largest-ever woodpeckers, the imperial and the ivory-billed, are tragically both now extinct. The trees they needed for nesting — as well as the two medallions of meat on their […]