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  • I would say that is a hole that a Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus has made.

    A hole in a tree: who dunit? AYDIN 2009

  • Martin Collinson compared David Luneau's Arkansas video footage from April 2004 of the supposed Ivory-billed Woodpecker with fresh footage of the Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus, a superficially similar black and white species.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • There are several large mammals of conservation significance in this ecoregion, including the endangered douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus), red-cheeked gibbon (Hylobates gabriellae), and pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus) and potentially the tiger (Panthera tigris).

    Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests 2008

  • Systematic revision and biogeography of the Herpsilochmus pileatus complex, with description of a new species from northeastern Brazil.

    Mato Grosso tropical dry forests 2008

  • The Pileated woodpecker, dryocopus pileatus, was seen and photographed the same day, January 26, 2008 in Asheville, North Carolina.

    Results of the Big Garden Birdwatch « Fairegarden 2008

  • In addition to the endangered tiger, there are several other threatened mammal species, such as the capped langur (Semnopithecus pileatus), smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata), Oriental small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea), and great Indian civet (Viverra zibetha).

    Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests 2008

  • Its final disposition was in a deep and lonely mountain tarn, which, according to later tradition, was on a mountain, still called Pilatus actually pileatus or 'cloud-capped', close to Lucerne.

    Archive 2005-03-20 2005

  • Convolvulus pileatus and dwarf bamboo are common on the low hills.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • I never see a tulip-tree without recollecting the wild, strangely-hilarious cry of the _Hylotomus pileatus_; and I cannot help associating the giant bloom, its strength of form and vigor of color, with the scarlet crest and king-like bearing of the bird.

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • Ed. 2 The pileated woodpecker (Ceophlœus pileatus).

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

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