Loudest Woodpecker Drumming - Mini Documentary

Video: Loudest Woodpecker Drumming -  Mini Documentary

World's Loudest Woodpecker Drumming and Pecking! Northern Flickers use real man-made steel drums - metal chimney caps - that makes them intelligent "tool-users" and likely among the loudest woodpecker drummers in the world. But loud doesn't begin to describe what the 15-minute long drumming and calling sessions sound like  inside the house whose chimney top is used as a drum. Enjoy this short documentary and imagine what this sounds like at the break of dawn as a male Northern Flicker defends his territory, mate and nest box!

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Video: Loudest Woodpecker Drumming -  Mini Documentary

Northern Flicker Woodpecker Calling and Drumming

Video: Northern Flicker Woodpecker Calling and Drumming

Male Northern Flicker woodpecker calls and drums to attract a female to the Screech Owl nest box he has claimed as a nest site. He is a gorgeous yellow-shafted variety common to eastern North America with a call similar to a Pileated Woodpecker, but weaker and higher pitched.  The call ringing through the forest almost brings to mind the sounds of a tropical jungle.

This brown woodpecker flashes bright colors under the wings and tail when it flies. Its ringing calls and short bursts of drumming can be heard in spring almost throughout North America. Two very different-looking forms -- Yellow-shafted Flicker in the east and north, and Red-shafted Flicker in the west -- were once considered separate species. 

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Video: Northern Flicker Woodpecker Calling and Drumming