Photo Study Of A Male Pileated Woodpecker

Photo Study Of A Male Pileated Woodpecker

Thanks to the generosity of Linda and Scott Sepsy of Buckingham Twp, I was able to photograph this beautiful male Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) this morning near their home.

The bird kept searching for insects in several different dead White Pines. The female remained high up in the top of a live tree and somehow avoided my camera. The Pileated Woodpecker is our largest woodpecker (16 1/2 inches long with a wingspan of 29 inches.) It lives in mature forests where it searches for insects. Its favorite food is the carpenter ant and the Pileated searches for them by excavating large, rectangular holes.

Male Northern Flicker Female Northern Flicker

Interestingly enough, a pair of Northern Flickers followed the Pileated around and pecked in each hole abandoned by the larger woodpecker.

Please click on either the thumbnails or the captions below to see a larger image...thanks!


A-PileatedWoodpecker	B-PileatedWoodpecker	C-PileatedWoodpecker	D-PileatedWoodpecker	E-PileatedWoodpecker
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F-PileatedWoodpecker	G-PileatedWoodpecker	H-PileatedWoodpecker	I-PileatedWoodpecker	J-PileatedWoodpecker
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K-PileatedWoodpecker	L-PileatedWoodpecker	M-PileatedWoodpecker	N-PileatedWoodpecker	O-PileatedWoodpecker

P-PileatedWoodpecker	Q-PileatedWoodpecker	R-PileatedWoodpecker	S-PileatedWoodpecker	T-PileatedWoodpecker

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