Bird
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Picoides borealis
Lives in Alabama all year and nests here. Found in 59 of 67 counties, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 59 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 59 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Year-round
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 2
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
1 of 2
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Other habitats in its models (21)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Alabama.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-Line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
- Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
Seasons in Alabama
- Year-round: nests here, in 59 of 67 counties.
Possible or historical range
- Historical: year-round, in 2 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 31
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Alabama. Shared habitat, not food.
- Aristida beyrichianaAristida beyrichiana
- Slender SpikegrassChasmanthium laxum
- Georgia CalamintClinopodium georgianum
- Catesby's BindweedConvolvulus catesbyanus
- St. Peter's-wortHypericum crux-andreae
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Shortleaf PinePinus echinata
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- Pond PinePinus serotina
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- Virginia PinePinus virginiana
- Eastern Needle GrassPiptochaetium avenaceum
- Scarlet OakQuercus coccinea
- Southern Red OakQuercus falcata
- Georgia OakQuercus georgiana
- Blackjack OakQuercus marilandica
- Chestnut OakQuercus montana
- Post OakQuercus stellata
- Black OakQuercus velutina
- Fragrant SumacRhus aromatica
- Erect SnoutbeanRhynchosia tomentosa
- Nettleleaf SageSalvia urticifolia
- Silphium trifoliatum var. latifoliumSilphium trifoliatum var. latifolium
- Sweet GoldenrodSolidago odora
Wildlife 139
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Ruby-crowned KingletRegulus calendula
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Yellow-rumped WarblerDendroica coronata
- Yellow-throated WarblerDendroica dominica
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP year-round habitat model for Red-cockaded Woodpecker
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)












































