The Peckerwood Is Back!

[Ange]

They are great in Gumbo. I like to make bacon wraps with them too. Pecker poppers just doesn’t sound right.

 

[booger]

Back during the original sighting, there were a lot of Subaru's with kayak's on top running around. As best as I could tell, they didn't launch until after sunrise.

 

[California Flyway]

We have a large species of Woodpecker in northern California. They are Pileated Woodpeckers and bear some resemblance to the Ivory Bills. They are not common. A limiting factor for them is each pair of them requires a very large number of acres of older, large tree habitat. I live in a Redwood forest and each year a couple of them land in our Myrtle bushes and eat the seeds that look like pepper corns. They make quite a racket with their calls. The sound of their bills hitting trees carries a long way.
Except for likely extinct Ivory Bills, the Pileated is North America's largest Woodpecker.
Neat birds.

Pileated Woodpecker

A big, dashing bird with a flaming crest, the largest woodpecker in North America (except the Ivory-bill, which is almost certainly extinct). Excavating deep into rotten wood to get at the nests of carpenter ants, the Pileated leaves characteristic rectangular holes in dead trees. This species...

www.audubon.org

 

[Sam Ortmann]

We have a large species of Woodpecker in northern California. They are Pileated Woodpeckers and bear some resemblance to the Ivory Bills. They are not common. A limiting factor for them is each pair of them requires a very large number of acres of older, large tree habitat. I live in a Redwood forest and each year a couple of them land in our Myrtle bushes and eat the seeds that look like pepper corns. They make quite a racket with their calls. The sound of their bills hitting trees carries a long way.
Except for likely extinct Ivory Bills, the Pileated is North America's largest Woodpecker.
Neat birds.

Pileated Woodpecker

A big, dashing bird with a flaming crest, the largest woodpecker in North America (except the Ivory-bill, which is almost certainly extinct). Excavating deep into rotten wood to get at the nests of carpenter ants, the Pileated leaves characteristic rectangular holes in dead trees. This species...

www.audubon.org

They’re fairly common throughout much of the south and lower Midwest

 

[Bullet21XD]

All over the upper midwest as well.

 

[California Flyway]

Not sure how much noise the Ivory Bills make, but you know when Pileateds are around by their raucous calls.

 

[bill cooksey]

Not sure how much noise the Ivory Bills make, but you know when Pileateds are around by their raucous calls.

They’ll get a turkey fired up.

 

[CookMan]

Not sure how much noise the Ivory Bills make, but you know when Pileateds are around by their raucous calls.

Very loud and and very loud-voiced. They are awesome in flooded the timber!

 

[Bullet21XD]

Some would say the white bills are more audible than visible!

 

[GUNNERX2]

A pileated woodpecker can reduce a rotting stump to nothing in a short period of time. I was glad one took a liking to an old stump in my yard, saved me a bunch work.