Bird
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Picoides borealis
Lives in Florida all year and nests here. Found in 66 of 67 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 66 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 66 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Year-round
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.
Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.
Dry, deep-sand ridges with longleaf pine and turkey oak, kept open by fire.
Other habitats in its models (19)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- 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.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine 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 - 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.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
Seasons in Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in 66 of 67 counties.
Possible or historical range
- Historical: year-round, in 1 county.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 410
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Longleaf BluetHoustonia longifolia
- Roundleaf BluetHoustonia procumbens
- St. Peter's-wortHypericum crux-andreae
- PineweedHypericum gentianoides
- Pineland St. John's-wortHypericum suffruticosum
- Atlantic St. John's-wortHypericum tenuifolium
- Glossyseed Star-grassHypoxis sessilis
- Carolina HollyIlex ambigua
- Large GallberryIlex coriacea
- Carolina IndigoIndigofera caroliniana
- Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata
- Savanna IrisIris tridentata
- Krameria lanceolataKrameria lanceolata
- Southern BogbuttonLachnocaulon beyrichianum
- Small's BogbuttonLachnocaulon minus
- Drysand PinweedLechea divaricata
- Thyme-leaf PinweedLechea minor
- Pineland PinweedLechea sessiliflora
- Torrey's PinweedLechea torreyi
- Roundhead LespedezaLespedeza capitata
- Hairy LespedezaLespedeza hirta
- Trailing LespedezaLespedeza procumbens
- Creeping LespedezaLespedeza repens
- Tall LespedezaLespedeza stuevei
Wildlife 159
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Brown CreeperCerthia americana
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
- Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Cooper's HawkAccipiter cooperii
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Downy WoodpeckerPicoides pubescens
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)








































