I've seen this video before and it was then labeled as a Poestes.

Pileated woodpeckers don't have the white V on their backs as this one does. Nor does the red head go down the neck like this one. Breast feathers in the video are scaled in white, pileateds have dark breasts. Pileateds have a red slash along the lower mandible, the vid does not. The actual name of this woodpecker is the Lineated (Dryocopus lineatus) woodpecker from SA.

http://www.avianweb.com/lineatedwoodpeckers.html

This vid was not shot in Fla it's from SA and has been reposted and mislabeled.

My bad I had it as a Poestes poecilonotus when it is actually a sulphureus.
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