Hi Harry,Harry Hussey said:A reintroduction of GSW may be in order here....
I would agree with Malvolio that the structure upon which the bird is tapping does determine (to a large extent) the resulting sound. I once heard a very loud, resonating tapping coming from a wooded area. I went looking for a large woodpecker (perhaps a Pileated Woodpecker). Upon locating the bird I was very surprised to see it was a diminutive Downy Woodpecker. The structure of the branch upon which it was tapping just happened to make the sound very loud!Malvolio said:The original qusetion refers to tapping sounds rather than drumming. While the latter differs between species according to speed and duration etc...I suspect that differences in tapping sounds are as much a result of the quality of the timber as anything else. That said, very large species will clearly tap differently from very small ones.
MV
And Dennis, save for the Black-backed I've got them all here too.dennis said:Hi Stevie,
Here in Pennsylvania we've spotted:
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied sapsucker
Downy woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker(rare but I've seen one)
Northern Flicker
and Pileated Woodpecker(the big guy)
Larry Lade said:Hi Trevor,
Congratulations on getting the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
We tried for the Red-cockaded Woodpecker when we were in Florida. We found their roosting/nesting trees but did not see the birds.
Larry
Crispy, I was going to say if you are ever in northwest Missouri give me a call and we will go out and get you six or seven more species of woodpeckers! But with that list that Dave gave you would probably get many more if you went down south and paid him a visit!