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Pileated Woodpecker

Overview
ID Info
Life History
Maps
Sounds

Pileated Woodpecker Sounds

Overview
ID info
Life History
Maps
Sounds

Calls
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New York, January 01, 1989Recorded by William Evans | Macaulay Library
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Oregon, April 19, 1992Recorded by Dave Herr | Macaulay Library
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New York, May 17, 1951Recorded by Arthur A. Allen | Macaulay Library
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Oregon, May 09, 1992Recorded by Dave Herr | Macaulay Library

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Calls

Pileated Woodpeckers are quite vocal, typically making a high, clear, series of piping calls that lasts several seconds. The sound is quite similar to a Northern Flicker’s rattling call, although it tends to be more resonant and less even in tone, with changing emphasis or rhythm during the call. Pileated Woodpeckers also give shorter calls that sound like wuk, wuk or cuk, cuk to indicate a territory boundary or to give an alarm.

Other Sounds

Both sexes drum powerfully on trees at any time of the year, typically a fairly slow, deep rolling that lasts about 3 seconds. Males drum in late winter to establish and defend a territory, both sexes drum as part of courtship, and either sex may drum to solicit mating, to summon a mate from a distance, or in response to an intruder near a nest.

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