Downy Woodpecker Calls

February 15, 2023 – Stout Farm Rd, Tobaccoville

    Calls

    Pik
    Whinny: series of pik notes slightly downslurred (Pieplow 2017)

    November 11, 2021 – Long Creek Park

    Begging

    Begging – April 27, 2020 – Stout Farm Rd., Tobaccoville
    Begging – April 27, 2020 – Stout Farm Rd., Tobaccoville

    Drumming

    Averages 16 beats/second (Pieplow 2017, Jackson and Ouellet 2020)
    12.1 beats/drum (Jackson and Ouellet 2020)
    1.5 second duration (Jackson and Ouellet 2020)
    9-15 drums/minute (Jackson and Ouellet 2020)
    Both sexes drum
    Duet drumming
    Drum year-round, more in winter and spring

    March 5, 2023 – Reynolda

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    February 14, 2023 – Long Creek Park

    More recordings

    Comparison of woodpecker calls
    Comparison of woodpecker drumming

    References:
    Jackson, J. A. and H. R. Ouellet (2020). Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (P. G. Rodewald, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.dowwoo.01

    Pieplow, Nathan (2017). Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, MA.