Pileated Woodpecker in Western Ny

From Wikipedia.........The Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a very large North American woodpecker.

Adults (40-49 cm long, 250-350 g weight) are mainly black with a red crest and a white line down the sides of the throat. Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat and red on the front of the crown. In adult females, these are black. They show white on the wings in flight. The only North American birds of similar plumage and size are the Ivory-billed Woodpecker of the Southeastern United States and Cuba, and the related Imperial Woodpecker of Mexico. Both of those species are extremely rare, if not extinct.


White wing liningsTheir breeding habitat is forested areas with large trees across Canada, the eastern United States and parts of the Pacific coast. They usually excavate large nests in the cavities of dead trees, and often excavates a new home each year, creating habitat for other large cavity nesters.

This bird is usually a permanent resident.

These birds mainly eat insects (especially beetle larvae and carpenter ants) as well as fruits, berries and nuts. They often chip out large and roughly rectangular holes in trees while searching out insects.

The call is a wild laugh, similar to the Northern Flicker. Its drumming can be very loud, often sounding like someone striking a tree with a hammer. This bird favors mature forests, but has adapted to use second-growth stands and heavily wooded parks as well.

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Pets & Animals

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• Pileated
• Woodpecker
• Western
• Ny

[agingerbeard]

Fantastic! I just saw one of these in southern New Brunswick last week. Out of curiosity, what is the name of the bird calling at the beginning of the video?

[angelica14709]

@agingerbeard Thanks for the comment. We will have to wait for an expert on calls to reply to you.

[kb407]

The call is a white throated sparrow

[Lisabk518]

My neighbors must be serving up quite a feast in their feeders and the trees they have!! Besides the Woodpeckers I mentioned, I saw Beautiful Red Cardinals and Brown Doves... I don't have to go far to watch nature anymore... Just missing the narratives. :-)

[Lisabk518]

I'm soooo glad I found this!!! I too have spotted Woodpeckers in my backyard (well, looking out my back window..lol) and I have a daily visitor who munches on the tree right in front of my bedroom window. I'm trying to identify them. Definitely saw the "Yellow-Bellied Sap Sucker" and have seen what looked like a family of Red-Cockaded Woody's!! I was wondering why the "Mean" Pigeon who used to live in the awning downstairs has moved on... Maybe the Falcons in the area got him?!?

[NicoleFlin]

@agingerbeard I am pretty sure thats a cardinal singing at the beginning.

[ricottafrittata]

@agingerbeard I think it's a Chickadee at the beginning doing its "fee-bee" song. Not an expert, just hear these birds all the time because they're so common around here.

Saw a Pileated Woodpecker for the first time last week at Letchworth State Park in Western New York. Very cool! This is a great video of one.

[chalomirof63]

@angelica14709 I wanted to know the same thing. And this video is gorgeously shot. Bravo!

[afanch]

Great video. I grew up in Richburg, NY and just saw a Pileated Woodpecker in MN yesterday while visiting family. It was amazing!

[Schweehog1]

Very amazing footage