";s:4:"text";s:1570:" Look (and listen) for Pileated Woodpeckers whacking at dead trees and fallen logs in search of their main prey, carpenter ants, leaving unique rectangular holes in the wood.
The male Pileated Woodpecker has a red stripe from the bill back. The Pileated Woodpecker is one of the biggest, most striking forest birds on the continent. About the size of crows, pileated woodpeckers are some of the most dramatic-looking birds on the continent. The female Pileated Woodpecker lays a clutch of four to six eggs in a tree cavity. Look (and listen) for Pileated Woodpeckers whacking at dead trees and fallen logs in search of their main prey, carpenter ants, leaving unique rectangular holes in the wood. In addition, for males the scarlet crest reaches all the way to the upper beak. Male Pileated Woodpecker The Pileated Woodpecker is one of the biggest, most striking forest birds on the continent. Both the male and the female woodpeckers feed and watch over their young for … Two days ago I captured this female Pileated Woodpecker during a heavy snow. It’s nearly the size of a crow, black with bold white stripes down the neck and a flaming-red crest.