Bird
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Picoides borealis
Lives in Arkansas all year and nests here. Found in 41 of 75 counties, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 41 of 75 counties
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 41 of 75 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 Arkansas 2
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Forests and open woodlands on dry ridges and slopes, often oak or pine.
Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.
Other habitats in its models (22)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.
In Arkansas 2
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Forest Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Sandhill Oak and Shortleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Elsewhere in the South (7)
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
- Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (13)
- 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.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine Modifier Year-round.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Open Understory Modifier Year-round.
- Florida Longleaf Pine Sandhill - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier Year-round.
- Northeastern Interior Dry Oak Forest - Virginia/Pitch Pine Modifier Year-round.
- Southern Piedmont Dry Oak-(Pine) Forest - Loblolly Pine Modifier Year-round.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Year-round: nests here, in 41 of 75 counties.
Possible or historical range
- Historical: year-round, in 4 counties.
Also found in its main habitats
Its main habitats in Arkansas, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.
Dry forests and woodlands
Birds 36
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
- Rufous-crowned SparrowAimophila ruficeps
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Chuck-will's-widowCaprimulgus carolinensis
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Cerulean WarblerDendroica cerulea
- Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
Plants 152
- White ThoroughwortEupatorium album
- McCree's MilkpeaGalactia volubilis
- Narrowleaf SilkgrassPityopsis graminifolia
- Small-headed SilkgrassPityopsis graminifolia var. tenuifolia
- Sessileleaf Tick-trefoilDesmodium sessilifolium
- Leavenworth's SedgeCarex leavenworthii
- Ernests SpiderwortTradescantia ernestiana
- Southern LoosestrifeLysimachia tonsa
- Carolina LilyLilium michauxii
- Doubleform SnoutbeanRhynchosia difformis
- Heller's Rabbit-tobaccoPseudognaphalium helleri
- Tall BellflowerCampanulastrum americanum
Hardwood and oak flatwoods
Birds 45
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- American CootFulica americana
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Great EgretArdea alba
Plants 15
- Inland MuhlyMuhlenbergia glabrifloris
- Barrens MilkweedAsclepias hirtella
- Rafinesque's SeedboxLudwigia hirtella
- Michigan LilyLilium michiganense
- Barbed Rattlesnake RootPrenanthes barbata
- Longs SedgeCarex longii
- Wolf's SpikerushEleocharis wolfii
- Bushs MuhlyMuhlenbergia bushii
- Nutmeg HickoryCarya myristiciformis
- Shellbark HickoryCarya laciniosa
- Dwarf PalmettoSabal minor
- Pin OakQuercus palustris
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)





































