tags: Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery birds] Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, photographed on Katy Prairie, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 3 April 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with tsn-pz camera eyepiece 1/400s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Pileated woodpecker. DUH! Bwahahahahahaaaaaa! I AM SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
What would be more fun is to show one of the holes made by these guys then see if people can properly identify the maker. Many trees near my family house have vertically elongated 4 to 12 inch holes made by pileateds that frequented the area. Do any other North American woodpeckers make anything remotely that size? (Ivory bills did, but...)
My apologies for ground-petrel's rude comment. He *is* twelve, but that is old enough to know better.
For what it is worth, he loves this blog and is wild about birding.
What in the world is this guy doing in anyplace called "Prairie"?
mother bird: not a problem. i have an adult who is currently misbehaving on my blog who lacks the sweetness, charm and intelligence of ground-petrel.
DSC: have holes? have camera? send me the images! i'd love to add them to the daily mystery bird gallery!
good question, psweet. i will ask the photographer. i might have missed the appropriate habitat when i visited the katy prairie roughly one year ago, but i sure don't remember anything appropriate to this species that was big enough to keep it happy.
Woody Woodpecker! He's got that red crest, unlike the woodpeckers common to Arizona which are just a uniform brown. :)
Does this one go "a-ha-ha-haaa-ha!" ?
Back home they call this one a log-cock. You can tell him a mile away by the way he hits the tree: nothing else sounds like him.