Pileated Woodpecker
| Dryocopus pileatus | Order: Piciformes | Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers) |
Dryocopus pileatus
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers)
North America’s largest surviving woodpeckers depend on old trees for grubs; many individuals have also figured out how to exploit bird feeding stations. Pileated Woodpeckers have been one of my favorite species for many reasons for a long time, and so it’s thrilling for me to live in a neighborhood where they visit my backyard fairly frequently. One banded male in particular has been extremely approachable since I first noticed him in November 2021. “BB” has given me some extraordinarily lovely photo ops.
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Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Drama on Peabody Street 2023
- Oops 2023
- Exploration, Discovery, and Triumph 2023
- Making Our Yards Safe for Blue Jays (and other birds) 2023
- Two Little Boys Turn Three! 2023
- New Wheels for Birding! 2023
- Teach Your Children Well, Part 1 2023
- BB's Babies! 2023
- Smoke Gets in Your Lungs 2023
- BB, My Special Pileated Woodpecker 2023
- Spring Update 2023
- Dawn Comes to Peabody Street 2023
- First Pileated of 2023 2023
- The New Kid on the Block 2022
- Joy in the Morning 2022
- October! 2022
- Celebrating Individuals 2022
- Joy in the Backyard 2022
- Chickadee Day 2022: The Worst of Times 2022
- February Bluebird!! 2022
- February! 2022
- Bird Feeding, Part II: Suet 2022
- Bird Feeding, Part I: Bird Seed 2022
- New Years Brrrrrrding! 2022
- Top Bird of 2021: Black-capped Chickadee 2021
- Final Four—My Top Birds of 2021: Pileated Woodpecker 2021
- Everyday Birds on Peabody Street 2021
- Poop List! 2021
- Pileated Woodpecker 2021
- Camera Fun with Pileated Woodpeckers 2021
- Hot, Peppery Bird Food 2021
- How Baby Woodpeckers Learn 2021
- Looking for the Special Ones 2021
- Winter's End 2021
- Figuring Out the Big World 2021
- Of Supernovae and Full Moons 2021
- The Reverend Bachman's Doomed Baby Pileated Woodpeckers 2021
- American Birding Association 2021 Bird of the Year 2021
- 2020 Duluth Christmas Bird Count 2020
- Free Gifts for Bird Lovers 2020
- Hanging Together 2020
- November Pleasures 2020
- Backyard Fun 2020
- Spying on My Backyard Birds 2020
- Spring Is Springing! 2020
- Earth Day 2020 2020
- November Drear 2019
- Helen Erickson, 1919-2018 2018
- Return of the Pileated Woodpecker 2018
- Drama on Peabody Street 2018
- Laura's Best Bird EVER! Yesterday's Pileated Woodpecker 2018
- Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Brita and Odin, and Their Mom, Sarah 2018
- Transitions 2018
- Laura’s Best Bird EVER! ™ Geppetto, Part 2 2018
- Laura’s Best Bird EVER! ™ Geppetto, Part I 2018
- June Hike 2018
- Listener Favorite: Robyn's Saw-whet Owl 2018
- The Giving Tree 2018
- Laura’s Best Bird EVER! ™ First Pileated Woodpecker 2018
- Visiting Port Wing's South Shore School 2018
- Laura's Best Bird EVER! Chapter 7. White Tern 2018
- Passport to Adventure, Part I 2017
- A November Awakening 2017
- The Zen Driver 2017
- Spring Update: Separating the MMMMs from the DDDDs. 2017
- Where Are the Birds? Part 2 2017
- Wealth in the New Gilded Age 2017
- Hog Island Audubon Camp 2016
- Listing 2016
- Woodpecker City! 2016
- Spring Update 2016
- The Lusty Month of May on Peabody Street 2016
- The Cruelty of an April Wind 2016
- Valentine's Week Pileated Woodpecker 2016
- Killing Birds with Our Driving 2015
- Bird Tongues Part 2 2014
- Peabody Street Pickwick Club 2014
- Three Decades on Peabody Street 2014
- Eileen Bentzen's Pileated Woodpecker 2014
- Ringtones 2013
- Window Feeders 2013
- Barrow's Goldeneye 2013
- Hairy Woodpecker 2012
- Photography, Part II 2010
- Goose Poop 2008
- Pileated Woodpecker 2008
- Ithaca: New Yard List! 2008
- Sapsucker Woods 2008
- Duluth Christmas Bird Count 2007 2007
- Autumn Blues 2007
- Woodpeckers: Aldo Leopold's sawyers? 2007
- Wild Birds I Have Known, Part I 2007
- American Three-toed Woodpecker 2007
- New Year 2007 2007
- Ivory-bill Skeptics (from Arkansas) 2006
- Homesickness (from Arkansas) 2006
- Live from KUMD: Skepticism about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker 2005
- Bird Photography 2005
- Poems by Robert Nero and Thomas Handy Loon 2005
- This Winter 2005
- Jeepers, the Neighborhood Pileated Woodpecker 2004
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow 2004
- Downy Woodpecker 2004
- Hummingbirds 2004
- New Year 2004: Pileated Woodpecker 2004
- Magical Connections 2003
- White-breasted Nuthatch 2003
- Isabella Christmas Bird Count 2003
- Top Ten Favorite Birds 2002
- Canada Warbler and other Fall Birds 2001
- Black-backed Woodpecker 2001
- March: The Good, the Bad, and the Tragic 2001
- Hormones 2001
- Pileated Woodpeckers and other striking birds 2001
- Pileated Woodpeckers 2001
- Winter bird activity 2001
- Hunting Stories 2000
- Thanksgiving Gratitude 2000 2000
- The Pileated Connection 1999
- Saw-whet Owls: Early Spring 1999
- Black-backed Woodpecker 1999
- Fewer Birds 1999
- Marry Someone Like a Blue Jay 1999
- Quality Time with Pileated Woodpeckers 1999
- National Blue Jay Awareness Month: 1999
- Gepetto the Baby Pileated Woodpecker, Part 3 1998
- Gepetto the Baby Pileated Woodpecker, Part 2 1998
- Gepetto the Baby Pileated Woodpecker, Part 1 1998
- Silly Bird Names 1998
- The Pileated Connection 1997
- Bird Name Pronunciations 1997
- Gettysburg 1997
- Woodpeckers 1997
- Baby Bird Graduation 1997
- Pileated Woodpecker 1997
- Aspen Tree 1996
- Searching for the Elusive Groove-billed Ani 1995
- Roller Blading Birder 1995
- Woodpeckers 1995
- Isabella Christmas Bird Count 1995 1995
- Pileated Woodpecker 1994
- Feeding birds in winter 1994
- Walking to School 1993
- Pileated Woodpecker (Placeholder) 1993
- Pileated Woodpecker (Placeholder) 1992
- Birding along I-35 1991
- Essential Nature of Mature and Dying Trees 1991
- New Years Day 1991
- Why do birds have crests? And Baker's Blue Jay Hot Cereal 1990
- Ani Ganders Says Marry Someone Like a Blue Jay 1990
- Thanksgiving Pileated and Oil of Ojay 1990
- Thirty-nine and Counting 1990
- The Pileated Connection 1990
- Christmas Bird Count Summary, 1989 1989
- Christmas Bird Count 1989 1989
- Woodpeckers 1989
- Biking to Port Wing 1989
- Contest results, part 2 1989
- Listener Letters 1989
- Last Day of Winter Bird Contest 1989
- Contest Update 1989
- Bird Report 1989
- Valentine's Day 1989 1989
- How birds survive winter 1989
- Pileated Woodpecker 1989
- Contest update 1989
- Bird Feeder Winter Contest 1988
- Christmas Bird Count 1988 Summary 1988
- Hawk Ridge Weekend 1988 1988
- Movie Review: Bambi 1988
- Jolly Times at an Elderhostel 1988
- Last Robin of Winter 1988
- Pileated Woodpecker (reworked from 1987) 1988
- State Birds 1988
- New Year's Day 1988 1988
- Economic Systems of Birds 1987
- Woodpeckers 1987
- Black-billed Cuckoo 1987
- Early Signs of Spring 1987
- Pileated Woodpecker and Welcome, KAXE 1987
- Low winter feeder activity 1987
- Pileated Woodpecker 1987
- Legal Protection of Birds 1986
- Silly Bird Names 1986
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker 1986
Sound Recordings
- Walter Saying "BB the Pileated Woodpecker" 2023
- Pileated Woodpecker: Juvenile Female, 1 call 2023
- Pileated Woodpecker fledgling 2023
- Sharp-tailed Grouse: 18 minutes of displaying 2019
- Sounds at Fruit Tree near the Anhinga Trail 2018
- Dueling Great Crested Flycatcher and Red-bellied Woodpecker 2018
- Pileated Woodpecker: 1 brief call 2018
- Dawn chorus in Minocqua, Wisconsin 2009