Listening to a Continent Sing

the companion website to the book by Donald Kroodsma

PILEATED WOODPECKER VA-70

Appalachia: Breaks Interstate Park and vicinity, far western Virginia

May 27, 7:25 a.m.

Sunrise at 6:15 a.m.

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Hear the wood chips fly as this pileated woodpecker carves up a nearby tree trunk while searching for a meal.

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Black-throated green warbler, red-eyed vireo, Acadian flycatcher, northern parula, American crow, hooded warbler, ovenbird.

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Photo by John Van de Graaff