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PILEATED WOODPECKER
Recorded in Penrose, North Carolina - August, 2009.
The largest woodpecker in North American, the Pileated Woodpecker's call is a very distinctive, almost tropical sound that resembles a wild laugh, similar to the Northern Flicker.
Pileated Woodpecker pairs stay together all year and raise their young in a hole in a tree, abandoning the hole after the babies have left the nest. However, forest song birds use the abandoned tree holes as nests. The Pileated Woodpeckers prefer mature forests, but with development infringing on their territory, they have adapted to second-growth forests and heavily wooded parks.
Photo of mating pair by Tibby Steedly. Taken in Columbia, SC - April, 2000.
Clipart above courtesy of CLIPART, ETC.
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