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 409
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Many-flowered Grass-pinkCalopogon multiflorus
- Hartwrightia floridanaHartwrightia floridana
- InkberryIlex glabra
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- Slash PinePinus elliottii
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- Pond PinePinus serotina
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Laurel GreenbrierSmilax laurifolia
- Verbesina heterophyllaVerbesina heterophylla
- Florida Peanut-grassAmphicarpum muehlenbergianum
- Carolina WiregrassAristida stricta
- Purple Honeycomb-headBalduina atropurpurea
- American BeautyberryCallicarpa americana
- LeConte's ThistleCirsium lecontei
- Coastal Sweet-pepperbushClethra alnifolia
- Ctenium floridanumCtenium floridanum
- Rattlesnake-masterEryngium yuccifolium
- Mohr's ThoroughwortEupatorium mohrii
- DangleberryGaylussacia frondosa
- Hypericum brachyphyllumHypericum brachyphyllum
- St. Andrew's-crossHypericum hypericoides
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
Wildlife 159
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Rusty BlackbirdEuphagus carolinus
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Short-tailed HawkButeo brachyurus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- White-tailed KiteElanus leucurus
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Black RailLaterallus jamaicensis
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDendroica caerulescens
- Black-throated Green WarblerDendroica virens
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Cape May WarblerDendroica tigrina
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)









































