Mr. Manly Hardy says: "The Pileated Woodpecker is a constant resident of Maine, but rarely leaves the vicinity of large timber.
Mr. Wilson, that enthusiastic student of bird life, writes in his usual interesting manner concerning the habits of the Pileated Woodpecker.
For its nest the Pileated Woodpecker excavates cavities in tree trunks at heights varying from twenty to eighty feet above the ground.
Next to it from a collecting standpoint come the nests of the Northern raven, pileated woodpecker, and Blackburnian warbler, in the order named.
It was a feeding-tree of the great pileated woodpecker of the North, a magnificent black and white bird with a scarlet crest, nearly the size of a crow.
Like all Woodpeckers the Pileated are very devoted parents, and the young follow them for some weeks after leaving the nest, until fully capable of caring for themselves.
The Pileated Woodpecker chisels out its nesting hole at any height in dead timber, whether of fir, pine, spruce, or other.
The Pileated Woodpecker does his share in staying the ravages of the wood-working insects, but he is even more interested in the spoliation of fallen logs and so hastens rather than retards decay.
The eggs of the Pileated Woodpecker are pure china-white in color, mostly ovate in shape; the shell is exceedingly fine-grained and very glossy, as if enameled.
The log cock, or pileated woodpecker, the largest and wildest of our Northern species, I have never heard drum.
The only new bird I saw in Maine was the pileated woodpecker, or black "log cock," called by Uncle Nathan "wood cock.
Frequently now we heard the toy-trumpeting and the clack of the Pileated Woodpecker or Cock-of-the-Pines, a Canadian rather than a Hudsonian species.
Almost as fine, and still frequently seen all over the eastern parts of the United States and Canada, is the similar but smaller logcock, or pileated woodpecker, as it is named in the books, whose shrill scream may be heard half a mile.
Pileated woodpeckers, bald eagles and all the ducks are much more rare than formerly.
The Pileated is one of the largest, but we never see it.
Each pileated piece of the skeleton is a truncated quadrangular pyramid.
Pieces of the skeleton either simple rings or pileated or pyramidal bodies, composed of thin hollow rods and reticular meshes.
Each pileated piece of the skeleton stirrup-shaped, with two pairs of meshes, and a square basal ring, the four corners of which are prolonged into four perradial spines.
Each pileated piece of the skeleton is a truncate six-sided pyramid like that of Distephanus speculum, but differing in the number (twenty-four) of teeth or spines.
Each pileated piece of the skeleton exhibits five lateral meshes around the central mesh (or the upper ring).
Each pileated piece of the skeleton is an eight-sided pyramid, like that of the two foregoing species, but differing in the number and distribution of the teeth or spines, which are thirty-two.
The majority of Dictyochida are armed with spines or thorns, which arise in a regular manner from different points of the annular or pileated pieces.
Cannorrhaphida# with a skeleton composed of pileated pieces, each of which is a small truncated pyramid with two girdles of meshes (the apical ring being fenestrated).
Each pileated piece of the skeleton is a small, regular, four-sided pyramid, similar to the foregoing species.
Each pileated piece of the skeleton is an eight-sided truncated pyramid, or nearly hemispherical.
Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus L 15" [Illustration] Habitat: Forests of heavy timber and secondary growth consisting of mixed deciduous and coniferous trees are the preferred year-round habitat for pileated woodpeckers.
Deserted pileatedwoodpecker or common flicker cavities enlarged by natural decay are readily used (Palmer 1976).
Nest: Hawk owls usually nest in natural cavities or in enlarged holes of pileated woodpeckers and flickers.
Food: Insects make up more than 70 percent of the food of pileated woodpeckers.
In the south the Pileated is by no means rare and seems not averse to the presence of man; but in the north he retires to the wilder forested areas and we are apt to see him only when we go a-camping.
They can readily be identified, at a great distance, from the Pileated Woodpecker by the large amount of white on the secondaries.
The Northern Pileated Woodpecker (abietocola) is locally found in temperate N.
I remember, when I was a boy, lying in a dark old wood in Kentucky and watching a pileated woodpecker at work on a dead tulip-bough that seemed to afford a great number of dainty morsels of food.
A single pileated piece, seen obliquely from the side.
Two coupledpileated pieces caught into one another (twin-piece).
A single pileated piece (half from the side, half from below).
I have seen an opening made by a Pileated Woodpecker in a white pine tree, twelve inches long, four inches wide, and eight inches deep, through perfectly sound wood to reach the larvA| at work in the heart of the tree.
The squirrels had already begun to "chicker" in the hazel copses; and a large pileated woodpecker was calling out loudly from the top of a tall pine stub, off in the opening.
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