Calls
Keek/wuck
Drumming
11-30 beats/drum (Bull and Jackson 2020, Pieplow 2017)
.7 – 3 sec duration (Bull and Jackson 2020, Pieplow 2017)
40-60 sec intervals
Slight acceleration at end
Both sexes drum, males more
Drum year-round, more in early spring
Compare woodpecker calls
Compare woodpecker drumming
Resources:
Bull, E. L. and J. A. Jackson (2020). Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.pilwoo.01
Pieplow, Nathan (2017). Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, MA.