Breeding Location:
Forests, coniferous, Forest edge
Breeding Type:
Monogamous
Breeding Population:
Common to fairly common
Egg Color:
White
Number of Eggs:
3 - 8
Incubation Days:
15 - 18
Egg Incubator:
Both sexes
Nest Material:
Few wood chips in tree.
Migration:
Nonmigratory
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Overview
Pileated Woodpecker: Large woodpecker with mostly black body and white wing linings which are visible in flight. the head has a prominent red crest and cap, white face and neck stripes and a red moustache stripe, and large gray bill. Legs and feet are gray. The largest woodpecker in North America.
Range and Habitat
Pileated Woodpecker: Resident from British Columbia east across southern Canada to Nova Scotia, and south to northern California, southern Idaho, eastern North Dakota, central Texas, and Florida. Found in mature forests and borders.
Breeding and Nesting
Pileated Woodpecker: Three to eight white eggs are laid in a bare tree cavity. Incubation ranges from 15 to 18 days and is carried out by both parents.
Foraging and Feeding
Pileated Woodpecker: Feeds on insects such as ants and wood boring beetle larvae; also eats fruits and nuts. Pries off long slivers of wood to expose ant galleries, or uses its long, pointed tongue with barbs and sticky saliva to catch and extract ants from tunnels.
Readily Eats
Suet, Sunflower Seed, Nuts, Sugar Water, Fruit
Vocalization
Pileated Woodpecker: Call is a loud, flicker-like "cuk-cuk-cuk-cuk-cuk", rising and then falling in pitch and volume.
Similar Species
Pileated Woodpecker: Ivory-billed Woodpecker lacks white chin and small white eyestripe extending to crest.
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