a new bird website...

Here is a new bird website that I found the other day. It has information,pictures, and movies of birds and how to attract them.

-the birdman-

bird of the week... pileated woodpecker

The Pileated Woodpecker (this is the kind of woodpecker my blog woodpeckers are) is one of the biggest woodpeckers in the USA. The very endangered Ivory-Billed woodpecker is the only one bigger. When this woodpecker calls it sounds like it is laughing. You can hear them pecking a quarter of a mile away! here is some information about them. Here is a video and a photo of males.
here is a picture of some Pileated woodpeckers and here is a coloring page just like it.

-the birdman-

neat thing about Titmouse name

This is a neat thing I found out the other day about the Titmouse name. The word Titmouse comes from the old Icelandic word mase wich means small and the Anglo-Saxon word tit which means bird. So, the name Titmouse literally means small bird.

-the birdman-