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[Editor’s note: This is the second part of a three-week series about woodpeckers found in the Piedmont area.]

The powerful muscles and formidable bill of the large, crested and stately pileated woodpecker were once demonstrated to me on a very personal level.

I was in West Virginia in October with a group of students who had accompanied Lee Trott and me to a camp in a mountain cove. Our purpose: to capture birds in mist nets and band them as a part of our study of fall migration.

One of the boys brought in a pileated woodpecker that had bloodied his knuckles as it

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