Woodpeckers are remarkable birds, and in our area none is more remarkable than the pileated woodpecker. This is the largest, by far, of the six woodpecker species that occur here regularly, nearly the ...
After years of waiting, I finally saw this gorgeous female Pileated Woodpecker exploring the dead pine trees that I refused to cut down. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Last Friday morning I woke up ...
Whenever I spy a pileated woodpecker traversing the sky, I pause to watch its weird undulating flight. The jerky rise-and-drop movement of this large woodpecker is endearingly gawky — like a mini ...
As a collective notion, woodpeckers are one of the more familiar bird families. The general idea is clear enough: medium-sized, black-and-white birds with red highlights that use their beaks to pound ...
If you look at a range map for the pileated woodpecker, you will see that it does not extend into southern and eastern Idaho. That made it a surprise then when last fall, one appeared in our yard in ...
Last Friday, I woke up with a splitting headache and bloody sinuses. Every muscle in my body ached and I was utterly exhausted even after a full night of sleep. I walked out to check on the wood stove ...
As a collective notion, woodpeckers are one of the more familiar bird families. The general idea is clear enough: medium-sized, black-and-white birds with red highlights that use their beaks to pound ...
Pileated woodpeckers are the magnificent giants of our local head-hammering world. While our most common downy woodpeckers weigh less than an ounce, our pileateds can weigh almost a pound. Worldwide, ...
The pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is such a strikingly large bird that it can only be confused with the ivory-billed woodpecker which is debated by many as to whether it is actually extinct ...
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