Wildlife

Pileated woodpecker

Dryocopus pileatus
Habitat
Fort Clatsop
Conservation
Apparently secure

Pileated woodpeckers were known to Lewis from the east. He did not remark on larger size of the western subspecies.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Pileated woodpecker

Jul 20 1805
Lewis: July 20, 1805
...again closed in by the Mouts. on both sides. I saw a black woodpecker today about the size of the lark woodpecker as black as a crow. I indevoured to get a shoot at it ...
Aug 2 1805
Clark: August 2, 1805
...ks as we have also Seen everry Day, Some geese I saw Black woodpeckersI have either got my foot bitten by Some poisonous insect or a turner is riseing on the inner bone...
Aug 2 1805
Lewis: August 2, 1805
...redheaded fishing duck, gees, several rattle snakes, black woodpeckers, and a large gang of Elk; they found the river much crouded with island both large and small and ...
Aug 22 1805
Lewis: August 22, 1805
...on the sides of all the mountains. I saw today a speceis of woodpecker, which fed on the seeds of the pine. it's beak and tail were white, it's wings were black, and ev...
Sep 9 1805
Lewis: September 9, 1805
...ers have arrived, one of them brought with him a redheaded woodpecker of the large kind common to the U States. this is the first of the kind I have seen since I left ...
Mar 4 1806
Clark: March 4, 1806
...on the Missouri. The large wood pecker or log cock the lark woodpecker and the common wood pecker with a red head are the Same with those of the Atlantic States, and ar...
Mar 4 1806
Lewis: March 4, 1806
...e with those formerly discribed on the Missouri. the large woodpecker or log cock, the lark woodpeckers and the small white woodpecker with a read head are the same wi...
Mar 24 1806
Lewis: March 24, 1806
...we breakfasted and set out at 1/2 after 9 A.M. Saw a white woodpecker with a red head of the small kind common to the United States; this bird has but lately returned. ...
Apr 5 1806
Lewis: April 5, 1806
...iameter. we saw the martin, small gees, the small speckled woodpecker with a white back, the Blue crested Corvus, ravens, crows, eagles Vultures and hawks. the mellow b...
May 27 1806
Clark: May 27, 1806
...d Several of them. this bird is about the Size of the lark woodpecker or the turtle dove, tho it's wings are longer than either of these birds. the beak is black, one i...
May 27 1806
Lewis: May 27, 1806
...hese animals with the heads feet and legs entire. The Black woodpecker which I have frequently mentioned and which is found in most parts of the roky Mountains as well ...
Jun 15 1806
Lewis: June 15, 1806
...ds in Virginia about the S. W. mountains. Saw the speckled woodpecker, bee martin and log cock or large woodpecker. found the nest of a humming bird, it had just began ...
Jul 1 1806
Lewis: July 1, 1806
... and exposed in the sun on pole to dry. the dove the black woodpecker, the lark woodpecker, the logcock, the prarie lark, sandhill crain, prarie hen with the short and...
Jul 6 1806
Lewis: July 6, 1806
...ve a large pasel of horses. saw some Curloos, bee martains woodpeckers plover robins, doves, ravens, hawks and a variety of sparrows common to the plains also some duck...
Aug 3 1806
Lewis: August 3, 1806
...us, one Callamet Eagle, a number of bald Eagles, redheaded woodpeckers &c. we encamped this evening on N. E. side of the river 2 ms. above our encampment of the 12th o...

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