Pileated woodpecker (male)
Issue: This Pileated woodpecker injured itself banging the aluminum siding of a home with its beak causing a coracoids wing fracture.
Treatment: The woodpecker’s wing was carefully bandaged for 14 days and pain management was provided.
Result: This bird was released in Sherbrooke (QC) where it was found.
Did you know? Woodpeckers will bang and peck at aluminum roofs and siding of homes and buildings to make as much noise as possible to attract mates. This behavior is only temporary and will last the first few weeks of summer.
First published in the Hudson/Saint-Lazare Gazette and are reprinted here with permission.