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Pileated Woodpecker

Dryocopus pileatus ORDER: PICIFORMES FAMILY: PICIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Nearly as large as a crow, the Pileated Woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in most of North America. Its loud ringing calls and huge, rectangular excavations in dead trees announce its presence in forests across the continent.

Read Cornell Lab of Ornithology's blog, Round Robin

Calls

  • Call
    Recorded by William W. H. Gunn
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a loud, ringing "kuk-kuk-kuk." Drumming loud and resonant.

Read Cornell Lab of Ornithology's blog, Round Robin
Search the Macaulay Library online archive for more sounds and videos