1. I am hearing a new bird noise. It sounds like a squeakiy swing or rocking chair. Duel notes...first one higher pitched/stronger emphasis; second one lower pitch/emphasis. What makes that kind of sound?
2. What is the difference between a Pileated Woodpecker and a Cockaded Woodpecker? I gotta run. Don't have time to google it.
Y'all have a good day.
1) Sounds like the call my Blue Jays make when they discover peanuts on the platform feeder. Starlings can produce this sound though(and nearly any other).
2)?
The red-cockaded woodpecker is a cardinal-sized, black and white woodpecker with a black cap on its head. They are distinguished by two small red streaks on each side of the black cap — a cockade — which are occasionally visible only on adult males. They live in old growth pine forests in the Southeastern United States.
Link and pic:
http://www.nwf.org/wildlife/redcockadedwoodpecker/
Pileated Woodpecker (This is the one Woody Woodpecker is based on, I believe)
Description 17" (43 cm). A crow-sized woodpecker. Black with white neck stripes, conspicuous white wing linings, and prominent red crest. Male has red "mustache," female has black.
Habitat Mature forests and borders.
Nesting 4 white eggs in a tree cavity.
Range Resident from British Columbia east across southern Canada to Nova Scotia, south to northern California, southern Idaho, eastern North Dakota, central Texas, and Florida.
Voice A loud, flicker-like cuk-cuk-cuk-cuk-cuk, rising and then falling in pitch and volume.
Discussion With the probable extinction of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), this is now the largest woodpecker in North America. Despite its size, this elegant woodpecker is often shy and hard to observe. Obtaining a close view of one usually requires careful stalking. Although primarily a forest bird, the "Logcock" has recently become adapted to civilization and has become relatively numerous even on the outskirts of large cities, where its presence is most easily detected by its loud, ringing call and by its large, characteristically rectangular excavations in trees. Its staple food consists of carpenter ants living in fallen timber, dead roots, and stumps. The woodpecker excavates fist-sized rectangular cavities, then uses its enormously long, sticky tongue to reach the ant burrows.
Pic and link:
http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesSH.asp?curGroupID=1&shapeID=963&curPageNum=3&recnum=BD0428