Ceophloeus pileatus . 
Bethel, Maine. Call notes of the Pileated Woodpecker 
1907 
January 21 
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 comsumes) they were separated by intervals of two or three 
seconds each. The entire series of calls may be rendered thus :- 
cue -cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue-cue - 
cup -cue — cue — cue — cue — cue — cue . cue . cue : cue : cue cue . This 
is the typical pr olongued outcry of the Pileated Woodpecker with 
the notes all on the same key and, as I have said, widely discon¬ 
nected at the' end. The bird utters much oftener a shorter series 
of similar notes, still more like those 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 aj)art calling to one another as they move from 
place to place. 
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