Red-headed Woodpecker Images, Facts and Information:
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-headed Woodpeckers are medium-sized woodpeckers found in temperate North America. They have a distinctive tricolored plumage, with a black back and tail, a white belly and rump, and a red head and neck.
- Some Red-headed Woodpeckers migrate, some do not. Red-headed Woodpeckers breed in deciduous woodlands with oak or beech, groves of dead or dying trees, river bottoms, burned areas, recent clearings, beaver swamps, orchards, parks, farmland, grasslands with scattered trees, forest edges, and roadsides. During the start of the breeding season, they move from forest interiors to forest edges or disturbed areas.
- Red-headed Woodpeckers primarily eat insects and other invertebrates, but they have also been known to devour small birds, fish, frogs, and even bird eggs.
- Red-headed Woodpeckers lay 4 to 7 eggs which hatch in 12 to 14 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of woodpeckers can be called a “drumming” or “descent” of woodpeckers.
- Red-headed Woodpeckers live to be more than 9 years of age.
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Back view of a Red-headed Woodpecker
Title: Back view of a Red-headed Woodpecker
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Adult Red-headed Woodpecker in Oklahoma
Title: Adult Red-headed Woodpecker in Oklahoma
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Perky Red-headed Woodpecker at Sequoyah NWR
Title: Perky Red-headed Woodpecker at Sequoyah NWR
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Adult Red-headed Woodpecker at Sequoyah NWR
Title: Adult Red-headed Woodpecker at Sequoyah NWR
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Adult Red-headed Woodpecker in a cottonwood tree
Title: Adult Red-headed Woodpecker in a cottonwood tree
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Red-headed Woodpecker adult in a cottonwood
Title: Red-headed Woodpecker adult in a cottonwood
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Red-headed Woodpecker on a bare branch
Title: Red-headed Woodpecker on a bare branch
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Red-headed Woodpecker adult with a mayfly
Title: Red-headed Woodpecker adult with a mayfly
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Red-headed Woodpecker with a mayfly
Title: Red-headed Woodpecker with a mayfly
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Red-headed Woodpecker about to take flight
Title: Red-headed Woodpecker about to take flight
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Red-headed Woodpecker with a beetle for its young
Title: Red-headed Woodpecker with a beetle for its young
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Adult Red-headed Woodpecker with berries at nest
Title: Adult Red-headed Woodpecker with berries at nest
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023
Red-headed Woodpecker poking its head out of its nest
Title: Red-headed Woodpecker poking its head out of its nest
Location: Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 6/17/2023