Pileated Woodpecker

Overhead songbird migration and captures have been slow at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory as the end of Fall Migration Monitoring nears, but that is not to say nothing interesting has happened. We caught a Pileated Woodpecker – only the thirteenth we have ever banded and the first since 2019! As Canada’s largest woodpecker, and with this bird clocking in at 368.8 g, these woodpeckers are too large to be effectively caught by our nets which typically max out at 90 g American Robins. In fact, he did partially collapse and escape a different net earlier that morning. 

Like all woodpeckers, the Pileated claims its territory by drumming their bills…

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