.... but there are only a few I have seen. Gorgeous birds.

I have more a problem with Acorn WoodPeckers, who are daily trying to put acorns into the walls of my house.

Grrrrr

we have them here in the higher altitudes.

We have Northern Flickers & some neighbors have metal chimneys & when a woodpecker gets going on those it sounds like a machine gun!

Fantastic photos! I love the action in the second one.

Your images are so sharp and clear.

Can't wait to see them in person!

yes, you will see some birds here

I've been fortunate to see two in my life, one that my grandmother called me to see when I was a little kid and a second one recently. Both were here in Northeastern New York.

I have the Pileated all over my woods. They do look similar. But I found this:

An easier-to-see difference between the two species is the white bar above the Lineated's shoulder, which Pileateds don't have. When the Lineated is in museum-presentation position, the white face-streak continues down the neck, then zags back up over the wing forming a conspicuous white V across the black back.

All I remember was that they both were the largest woodpeckers that I've ever seen and they're quite rare around here. Next time, if there ever is one, I'll have to look much closer.

The lineated woodpecker is related to the pileated woodpecker.

The lineated woodpecker's range is in Mexico and northern South America, and the pileated woodpecker is found in the United States and Canada.

....i used to see pileated in south FL and they were friggin' huge.

How do the voices compare?
All I've seen are the Pileated, and they have what I would call a very unique voice.

The second one, wow! What great shots!
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kadack akkk. adack akkk. i love their call.

It wraps around their brain. The image from this page floated around the FB bird groups a year or so ago.

https://abcbirds.org/blog21/woodpecker-tongues/

No safety glasses.

No hearing protection.

We have red-headed woodpeckers coming to our bird feeder and on rare occasions pileated woodpeckers.

so far yesterday a pair of parrots tried to steal the cavity nest....the pair of woodpeckers got defensive and one started beating its beak on the tree loudly and charging up the tree at the parrots....while the woodies had their hands full with the parrots, a pair of masked tityras moved in and tried to steal the nest. the parrots and tityras are back this morning and lurking.....the one woody is not leaving the hole unattended now.

Great shots!!

Southern relation to the Pileated woodpecker...



One stopped by the river house, left before I could get a shot...