Bethel, Maine
1907
Jan'y 21
(No 2)
  The Log cock heard in the Glen Woods this morning
called only once but then very near at hand. It began
very like a "shouting" Flicker but its notes from the
first were delivered less rapidly and smoothly than those
of the Flicker and they were decidedly louder. They
became gradually less and less closely connected until
towards the close of the outcry (which lasted more than
double the length of time that the "shouting" of the
Flicker ever consumes) they were separated by intervals
of two or three seconds each. The entire series of calls
may be rendered thus: - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc -
cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc
cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc - cuc, cuc,
cuc; cuc; cuc cuc. This is the
typical prolonged outcry of the Pileated Woodpecker
with the notes all on the same key and, as I
have said, widely disconnected at the end.
The bird utters much oftener a shorter series of
similar notes, still more like that of the Flicker
but less numerous, given very quickly and smoothly
and falling at the end in a tremulous diminuendo. This short
outcry is common to both sexes and is constantly
used when two or more birds are roaming the woods
not far apart calling to one another as they
move from place to place.
Call notes of the Pileated Woodpecker