{"id":205,"date":"2011-11-16T18:21:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T23:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/pileated-vs-ivory-billed-woodpeckers.html"},"modified":"2011-11-16T18:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T23:21:57","slug":"pileated-vs-ivory-billed-woodpeckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/pileated-vs-ivory-billed-woodpeckers.html","title":{"rendered":"Pileated vs. Ivory Billed Woodpeckers"},"content":{"rendered":"There is some confusion of the Lord God Bird, the Ivory Billed Woodpecker\nthat was\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/10\/13\/60minutes\/main940587.shtml\">\nthought extinct until the 1940s until 2004<\/a>,\nwith\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/11\/pair-of-pileateds-in-a-pine-tree.html\">\nour local Pileated Woodpecker.<\/a>\nThey are\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ivory\/identifying\/step3\"><\/a>\nsimilar colors and similar size:<\/a>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr valign=\"top\"><td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ivory\/identifying\/step3\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ivory\/image\/piwo_bottom_240.jpg\"><\/a>\n<\/td><td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ivory\/identifying\/step3\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ivory\/image\/ibwo_bottom_240.jpg\"><\/a>\n<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\"><td>\nPileated WoodPecker\n<br>\n<em>(Dryocopus pileatus)<\/em>\n<br>\nFlying: Dark trailing wing edge\n<br>\nPerched: Small white patch\n<br>\nLength: 16-19 in.\n<br>\nWing span: 26-30 in.\n<\/td><td>\nIvory-billed Woodpecker\n<br>\n<em>(Campephilus principalis)<\/em>\n<br>\nFlying: White trailing wing edge\n<br>\nPerched: Large white patch\n<br>\nLength: 18-20 in.\n<br>\nWing span: 30-33 in.\n<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><small>Above illustrations\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ivory\/identifying\/step3\">\nby N. John Schmitt \u00a9 Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/a><\/small>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n<p>\nYou can clearly see when this bird flew overhead\nit had a black trailing wing edge:\n\n<!--more-->\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6351835852\/in\/photostream\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\"  border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6101\/6351835852_344bb4d15f_z.jpg\"><\/a>\n<br>\n<small>\nPileated Woodpeckers, Lowndes County, Georgia.\n<br>\nPictures by John S. Quarterman, 7 November 2011.\n<\/small>\n<p>\nAlso, the bird on the tree shows the small white patch of the Pileated.\n<p>\nOr, as the Pileateds like to say, &#8220;yucka yucka yucka!&#8221;\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: Wild turkeys <em>(Meleagris gallopavo)<\/em> can be more than twice\nas long as either of these birds. While I have seen them flying,\nI&#8217;ve never seen a turkey perching on the vertical side of a tree.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is some confusion of the Lord God Bird, the Ivory Billed Woodpecker that was thought extinct until the 1940s until 2004, with our local Pileated Woodpecker. They are similar colors and similar size: Pileated WoodPecker (Dryocopus pileatus) Flying: Dark trailing wing edge Perched: Small white patch Length: 16-19 in. Wing span: 26-30 in. 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