Talk:Pileated Woodpecker
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Amazingly, I just saw my first Pileated Woodpecker on Mother's Day, May 8, 2005. Not knowing that the Pileated Wood Pecker existed, you can imagine my shock when it was spotted high on a loblolly pine, 1/4 mile from the ocean front in Virginia Beach VA. Having read of the rediscovery of the large Ivory-billed with the red crest, but forgetting the ivory-billed part, I watch in amazement when this larger than life woodpecker used its beak to flick-off pieces of bark on the pine tree. I ran quickly and quietly into the house to retrieve my camera for a comfirmation shot, but (you guessed it) 2 minutes later it had flown the coop! Now I'm on this website discovering that it was not the Ivory-billed, its relative the Pileated Woodpecker.
I live in Northern Florida and we have several families of Pileated Woodpeckers that live in and around our yard. They are amazing birds to watch high up in the trees.
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For more information on the Pileated Woodpecker visit:
Pileated Woodpecker Central (http://www.pileatedwoodpeckercentral.com)
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I just had one of these birds in my backyard and took approx 25 pics in action and the last one in flight at 1/400 sec. f4.7 after digging several holes about three giant worms were consumed. Clear Lake City, Texas about 6 miles from the Space Center. Gateway 5 mp Camera.
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I have one of these birds that visit my yard often. I saw him last year for the first time. I was amazed at the size and beauty of this bird. I have two stumps in my yard from where he loves to eat. I took a couple of photos, but not sure how they will turn out. At first I thought he might be the ivory-billed woodpecker, but then I found more photos of the Pileated Woodpecker. What is strange is that I live in the city, but there's several trees around this area.
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See Ivory-billed Discussion for a rather lengthy discussion (with references) of folk names applied to the Pileated and the Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. This needs to be summarized and incorporated into both articles. Summary: the Pileated Woodpecker was, and is still, referred to as the Lord God Bird in the Southeastern United States. The name appears to be a corruption of logcock, referring to propensity of the Pileated to feed on downed logs. The Ivory-billed was known as logcock as well, but there is no evidence in the printed sources I can find that it was ever widely known as Lord God Bird. I need to check recent works (Race to Save the Lord God Bird and Gallagher's The Grail Bird) to see if they have any further information on the folk names. I have checked several other authoritative works, and they all seem to support Lord God Bird as a folk name for the Pileated, not the Ivory-bill. --Cotinis 03:30, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
