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.
1 of 3


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. Those recorded in Florida first, the rest by region.
In Florida 1
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
Elsewhere in the South (8)
- Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
- Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods 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.
- 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 (10)
- 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 Northern Dry Upland Hardwood Forest - Offsite Pine 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 Florida
- Year-round: nests here, in 66 of 67 counties.
Possible or historical range
- Historical: year-round, in 1 county.
Also found in its main habitats
Its main habitats in Florida, 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.
Pine flatwoods
Birds 69
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Crested CaracaraCaracara cheriway
- Florida Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia floridana
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
- Florida Grasshoper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum floridanus
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
Plants 315
- Vaccinium darrowiiVaccinium darrowii
- Vaccinium myrsinitesVaccinium myrsinites
- Chapman's CrownbeardVerbesina chapmanii
- Verbesina heterophyllaVerbesina heterophylla
- ScareweedBaptisia simplicifolia
- Florida IronweedVernonia blodgettii
- Scrubland GoldenasterChrysopsis subulata
- Telephus SpurgeEuphorbia telephioides
- Florida Sands St.john's-wortHypericum exile
- Hypericum microsepalumHypericum microsepalum
- Oclemena reticulataOclemena reticulata
- Garber's GayfeatherLiatris garberi
Pine savannas
Birds 69
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Le Conte's SparrowAmmodramus leconteii
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
Plants 339
- Northern Wand GoldenrodSolidago stricta
- Virginia ThistleCirsium virginianum
- Running OakQuercus pumila
- Mohr's ThoroughwortEupatorium mohrii
- Rosy CamphorweedPluchea baccharis
- Narrowleaf LespedezaLespedeza angustifolia
- Longleaf MilkweedAsclepias longifolia
- Michaux's MilkweedAsclepias michauxii
- Georgia False FoxgloveAgalinis georgiana
- Scaleleaf False FoxgloveAgalinis aphylla
- Ruellia noctifloraRuellia noctiflora
- Mohr's BluestemAndropogon liebmannii var. pungensis
Sandhills
Birds 34
- Pine WarblerDendroica pinus
- Brown-headed NuthatchSitta pusilla
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Florida Grasshoper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum floridanus
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Florida Scrub-jayAphelocoma coerulescens
- White-tailed KiteElanus leucurus
- Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
Plants 352
- Ceanothus microphyllusCeanothus microphyllus
- Bluejack OakQuercus incana
- Baptisia perfoliataBaptisia perfoliata
- Galactia floridanaGalactia floridana
- Michaux's SumacRhus michauxii
- Wedgeleaf ThoroughwortEupatorium linearifolium
- Croton argyranthemusCroton argyranthemus
- Lynn Haven Golden AsterChrysopsis lanuginosa
- Pineland GoldenasterChrysopsis latisquamea
- Polygonella fimbriataPolygonum fimbriatum
- Polygonella polygamaPolygonum polygamum var. polygamum
- Zigzag SilkgrassPityopsis flexuosa
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)





































