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[Editor’s note: This is the first part of a three-part article on the woodpecker.]
In the central North Carolina of my growing-up years, the bold, black and white woodpecker with the flaming red crest was called the “Great God Woodpecker.” Surely one feels like saying “Great God,” or something like it, on seeing this crow-sized bird for the first time, or even the second or third.
To answer a question frequently asked me, the common name of this woodpecker — the pileated — is correctly pronounced as “PIE-leh-ted” or “PIL-ea-ted.” The word “pileated” is derived from a Latin word for crested. Dryocopus pileatus is the full Latin designation of this great bird. “Dry” is Greek for a tree, or more specifically, an oak; “copus,” or more accurately “kopis,” means “cleaver.” The Latin name translates to “crested wood cleaver.” The bird is certainly that.
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