The Howland Pileated Woodpecker Page

Page by Royce

The Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is a large member of the woodpecker clan, in fact the largest woodpecker in North America. (Or, depending on your age, it is a cartoon character with a crazy laugh.) This colorful but shy bird is a year-round inhabitant of the Calgary area, where we also live. Since it normally maintains a very large territory, we don't see many of them.

Resources where you can find out more:

• Pileated Woodpecker profile at weaselhead.org
• Pileated Woodpecker profile at CLO including sound samples

Gotta be something better up there... (click image for larger photo)	This character was spotted around 12:00 on January 12, 2003, in Fish Creek Provincial Park, Calgary, while Deb & Royce participated in a group walk with the Calgary Field Naturalists Society. We were near the head of the first trail off to the right of the information center at the Votier's Flats area. The bird was not actually too concerned about our observation, unlike the few Pileated Woodpeckers we have encountered before. We were within 7 meters of it for about 20 minutes or so while it hammered away at first one dead tree stump, then another. Photo info: 320 x 284 true color Exposure time: 10/611 F-stop: 4.2 ISO speed: 200 Focal length: 71.2000 (plus 1.5X teleconverter) Exposure bias: 0.0000 Metering mode: Center Weighted Exposure program: Normal Compression: 6 Camera make: NIKON Camera model: E5700 Larger photo info: 640 x 568 true color 192KB
Found something yummy? (click image for larger photo)	Another photo from January 12. Photo info: 320 x 292 true color Exposure time: 10/874 F-stop: 4.2 ISO speed: 200 Focal length: 71.2000 (plus 1.5X teleconverter) Exposure bias: 0.0000 Metering mode: Center Weighted Exposure program: Normal Compression: 6 Camera make: NIKON Camera model: E5700 Larger photo info: 640 x 575 true color 177KB
Incoming! (click image for larger photo)	Another photo from January 12. Photo info: 320 x 310 true color Exposure time: 10/762 F-stop: 4.2 ISO speed: 200 Focal length: 71.2000 (plus 1.5X teleconverter) Exposure bias: 0.0000 Metering mode: Center Weighted Exposure program: Normal Compression: 6 Camera make: NIKON Camera model: E5700 Larger photo info: 640 x 633 true color 208KB
Mugging for the camera. (click image for larger photo)	My favorite shot from January 12. The larger photo is presented in full resolution on this shot, for those with larger monitors. Photo info: 320 x 330 true color Exposure time: 1/91 F-stop: 4.2 ISO speed: 200 Focal length: 71.2000 (plus 1.5X teleconverter) Exposure bias: 0.0000 Metering mode: Center Weighted Exposure program: Normal Compression: 6 Camera make: NIKON Camera model: E5700 Larger photo info: 1074 x 1106 true color 462KB

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