Hi Rich
I'd agree with Doug & Robin on this one...I confess to being unfamiliar wit=
h
red-headed woodpecker, but am VERY familiar with yellow-bellied sapsucker,
and this drumming pattern seems identical to the thousands of y-b sapsucker=
s
I've heard drumming.
Mark Phinney
on 4/29/06 3:31 PM, Rich Peet at wrote:
> I had ruled out yellow-bellied Sapsucker because I only had heard the
> classic call of sapsuckers in this woods. What I heard was the
> classic slower decending time with this call and not in doublets. I
> spent 12 hours at this site. I guess the result is I can not list the
> drum with the call of the red-head and I should treat it the drum as
> non-confired. To bad for the library. I guess I need to return to this
> site for more visual.
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> Rich
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> Doug Von Gausig <> wrote:
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>> That syncopated drum is one of the Sapsuckers - one of the Sphyrapicus
>> genus. The Melanerpes woodpeckers don't syncopate their drums.
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>> Doug
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