Where is the red-cockaded Woodpecker found?
Where is the red-cockaded Woodpecker found?
The red-cockaded woodpecker makes its home in fire-dependent pine savannas. Longleaf pines (Pinus palustris) are most commonly preferred, but other species of southern pine are also acceptable. While other woodpeckers bore out cavities in dead trees where the wood is rotten and soft, the red-cockaded woodpecker is the only one that excavates cavities exclusively in living pine trees.
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Three-toed woodpeckers Species
Red-cockaded Woodpecker