DOWNY WOODPECKER CALLS: Learn how to ID their 3 most common sounds (2024)
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2024
- In this video, you will learn 3 COMMON calls and sounds that Downy Woodpeckers make, including what it sounds like when they drum against a tree!
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Here are the THREE most common calls that Downy Woodpeckers make:
00:15 SOUND #1: The whinny
A Downy Woodpecker’s most distinctive call is an excited, descending whinny. This high-pitched whinny call is made by both sexes.
It is commonly heard in deciduous forests during the breeding season. Hairy Woodpeckers also make a similar call. But a Downy Woodpecker whinny is slightly longer and descends in pitch at the end, whereas a Hairy Woodpecker is shorter and stays the same pitch.
LISTEN TO A HAIRY WOODPECKER HERE TO HEAR THE DIFFERENCE: • Hairy Woodpecker Calls...
00:39 SOUND #2: “pik”
Downy Woodpeckers also make a sharp, short “pik” call. This sound is typically repeated, with roughly half a second between each “pik.”
The “pik” call of a Downy Woodpecker is higher-pitched and quieter than a Hairy Woodpeckers' similar sounding “peek” call.
01:04 SOUND #3: Drumming
Their steady, rapid drumming almost blends into one uninterrupted sound. But, interestingly, a Downy’s drum is slower than most other North American woodpeckers.
Downy Woodpeckers drum to communicate with each other. These sounds are used for claiming territories, courtship, calling to their mate, and as an alarm call.
Downy Woodpeckers drum slower than Hairy Woodpeckers (15 taps/sec vs. 25 taps/sec). But Downy’s tend to drum more frequently, only pausing for a few seconds between each drum. To compare, Hairy Woodpeckers wait for roughly 20 seconds or more between drums.
01:58 Credit for Recordings
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Recordists: Glen Chapman, Brad Walker, William W.H. Gunn
Stan Tekiela, Naturesmart.com
Images used under license from Shutterstock.com
My cat caught a baby downy and brought her in my house unharmed. I'm now caring for her until she can fly and I can let her go. I have a new favorite bird!!
We live in a typical 'no trees' subdivision, but we put out suet feeders and have both Downy and Red Bellied Woodpeckers visit every day.
They are beautiful birds!
I've heard all three calls in my Cleveland Ohio backyard. Love these birds!!
We love watching the dowry’s. They’re a lot more shy than the red bellied woodpeckers. Great video.
I was blessed enough to capture one right out up close and personal on a tree outside my building today!!! So beautiful😍 Thanks for the lovely video.
🥰 them birdies! 😀
Love their squeak-toy calls. I cater to these lovely tree dwellers.
Thank you! we live in south MS, & we had 7 in the backyard this morning. We normally get red bellied woodpecker’s, so this is the first time I had seen the Downys in our backyard. I’ve lived here five years, and I daily bird watch. Possible habitat destruction has the moving towards the patch of woods behind my house for mating season. Poor little guys. They are just adorable, and my five-year-old also bird watches. this is very educational, especially pointing out the differences between the Hairy and downy calls and looks.
I believe ive heard them all .
Just could never understand they have three different ones ! Very beautiful birds they are
Very informative enjoyed this👍
I was just watching one at the feeder at my parents' house in Rockford, IL. Cute little bugger.
I have a few downy’s, hairy’s and two red bellied woodpeckers that come to my feeders for now. Your videos have been so helpful! I am fairly new with bird feeding (since this summer) and I love it!
Yes I have these beautiful woodpeckers in N Attleboro, MA. USA. Have 2 bird feeders and both male and female come and this pass fall they brought there two little ones to the feeder. I was so happy to see them all
I have baby downy woodpeckers in my tree, and they CONSTANTLY whinny and pik alllll day long. ❤
I have a male and female Downey woodpeckers here they come to visit my steps often for food they are so adorable and precious 💕
I hear that drumming sound on my morning walks many trees around. never spot them but i enjoy the rhythm. thanks for the video.
I woke up to this drumming & went outside to find where it was coming from. Never could spot it but new it was a woodpecker! It woke me up! Unbelievable how loud it was.😮
Yes here in NH they are wonderful little birds.
😁 As soon as I played this, 2 of these birds came to check it out. The 1st sound brought em in.
We love watching the downy’s. They’re a lot more shy than the red bellied woodpecker. So, we’re always happy to see them show up even if it’s for a short time. Great video!
Middleburg, Clay County, Florida - My yard is upland scrub. When I must have a tree cut down, I ask the men to leave about 20 feet of trunk for the birds to enjoy.
I have these lovely birds quite often at my suet feeders, I have heard the first two sounds often, but not so much the drumming sound. Thank you for this short video clip, very helpful!
We get these, red bellies and hairies. To make the suet last longer I cut it in by half diagonally and add whole 🥜. They love it!
Found one today so cute ❤
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We see many of these at our bird feeders in Howell, Michigan. They love suet.
I love woodpecker🥰🥰
We have 4-5 downy's that visit each day, several times per day. I love how they climb up the tree and peck and then scout back to the feeder before flying off.
,four miles from the downtown of Knoxville Tenn our woods are full of these woodpeckers south Knox city
Beautiful birds
I love thse birds. Several a day come to my feeders.
I have baby woodpeckers hanging out on my hummingbird feeders
Great video, very informative
I've heard all 3. I have a couple that visit my feeders every day.
Yes. I have a family in my maple tree .....Shenandoah Valley VA.
Beautiful
I heard the whinny sound when I checked a birdhouse last month. Thought it was one of the chickadee calls but then saw that it was actually these little woodpeckers nesting there. They are using a bluebird house with the small hole and a short protective extender placed at the hole. Apparently they are fine with that short tunnel into the house. Busy, busy now.
Thank you
I have a baby hairy woodpecker and it makes the pik sound❤😊
We have many of these coming to our suet feeders. We're semi rural with lots of variety of trees. South of Atlanta, GA.
I just love Woodpeckers! Being in San Luis Obispo county, I get visited by the Nuttall and Acorn Woodpeckers. They are so cute, they stand on my fence and announce to their friends, “I’m over here!” Bowing with each chirp♥️🖤🤍
Nuttalls are so subtle and so pretty. In Mendocino County, they are very quiet but thorough while bark gleaning, and while eating apples, they serenely ignore nearby Stellar jays trying to scare them away.
I love the downy woodpeckers so much that I have named 1 of them woody, woody the wood pecker.
Yes. Ofyen..I live in Carleton, Michigan
Love wood pecker
We have had a Ted Bellied Woodpecker coming by last few days.. Southeast Massachusetts. Have nice photo I’d love to share
Yes, my downy's like drumming on metal electrical boxes and empty metal gas cans. The sound is quite loud.
Such tiny woodpeckers with so much energy! I feed Downy, Hairy, and Northern Flickers via suet feeders and see and hear them a lot! They live in dead or dying trees, where they find insects and can easily excavate nest sites.
We have a place out in the woods and I love sitting outside, listening to all the wildlife sounds. I recorded one bird call this summer that I haven’t heard out there before. I posted to our campground Facebook page, and nobody else could identify it. Guess I heard a Unicorn Bird🤪😂
You could contact an Audubon Society chapter near that campground and ask if an experienced member would listen to your recording?
Not bird wise but thought I heard a Robin here at our Wisconsin cabin. Nope, a Downy. Listened to it's sharp single repeated pik call. It moved from tree to tree. I moved away and it stopped.
I hear these in our area north of Boston MA
Drumming woodpeckers here right beforwe dawn love it ne fl
The woodpecker who’s been pecking on my house doesn’t seem to like it when I play these sounds, especially when the drumming starts. He probably thinks there’s another woodpecker on his turf.
194 like very nice video 👍☕💯
I have a family of woodpeckers living in the tree behind my house
At 50 seconds, Young male. Nice picture.
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They nest high on the trees in my yard, (on Oyster creek, Sugar Land Texas), over the past 30 years. some years they are not too prominent.
I have downy woodpeckers drinking from my hummingbird feeder all day long every day
What region are you in? I am in the PNW. I would like to compare your birds to ours. It helps remember birds I've seen in different regions. Thanks
South Louisiana just southeast of Baton Rouge
I don’t know what a great Spotted woodpecker call sounds like so do a video of the calls of the great spotted woodpecker
I think I have 2 in my tree in my front yard.
Do you have a video showing how to set up a camera to record like this?
We live in the foothills of Albuquerque, New Mexico and we have these little guys frequently in our backyard. Ours also make this rather loud squawking noise - is this not common?
I'm in NWFL and I see what looks like these, but I'm not seeing the red on it's head and it almost sounds closer to the pileated.
Roxbury Wisconsin
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