Bird

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Picoides borealis

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 48 of 64 parishes, across 3 habitats. It once lived in 1 more parish.

Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 48 of 64 parishes
Habitats: 3

Adult Red-cockaded Woodpecker, whole bird — **Adult**. (c) botanygirl, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 697506. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: All year
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 48 of 64 parishes
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 Louisiana 3

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 3

Hardwood and oak flatwoods

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.

Year-roundWest Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods

Pine flatwoods

Flat, sandy Coastal Plain pine woodlands, wetter than sandhills and denser than savannas.

Year-roundEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier; West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

Year-roundWest Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods

Other habitats in its models (20)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

In Louisiana 3

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.

Elsewhere in the South (6)

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.
Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Year-round.
Southeastern Interior Longleaf Pine Woodland Year-round.

Land cover and other classes (11)

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 - 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.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

Year-round: nests here, in 48 of 64 parishes.

Possible or historical range

Historical: year-round, in 1 parish.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, 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.