Bird
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Picoides borealis
Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in 12 of 133 counties and cities, across 2 habitats.
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 12 of 133 counties and cities
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- All year
- Nesting
- Nests here
- Range
- 12 of 133 counties and cities
- 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 Virginia 2
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
1 of 2


Other habitats in its models (23)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.
- 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 - Open Understory Modifier 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.
- 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.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round.
- Central Florida Pine Flatwoods Year-round.
- West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Year-round.
Seasons in Virginia
- Year-round: nests here, in 12 of 133 counties and cities.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 232
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.
- Mohr's ThoroughwortEupatorium mohrii
- Dwarf HuckleberryGaylussacia dumosa
- DangleberryGaylussacia frondosa
- Pine Barren GentianGentiana autumnalis
- InkberryIlex glabra
- SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua
- Shining FetterbushLyonia lucida
- StaggerbushLyonia mariana
- Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana
- Longleaf PinePinus palustris
- Pond PinePinus serotina
- Loblolly PinePinus taeda
- Sun-facing ConeflowerRudbeckia heliopsidis
- American ChaffseedSchwalbea americana
- Fewflower NutrushScleria pauciflora
- Chapman's RedtopTridens chapmanii
- Slender Threeseed MercuryAcalypha gracilens
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Lesser SnakerootAgeratina aromatica
- Common RagweedAmbrosia artemisiifolia
- Fly-poisonAmianthium muscitoxicum
- Maritime BluestemAnatherum tenuispatheum
- Woollysheath Three-awnAristida lanosa
- Arrowfeather Three-awnAristida purpurascens
Wildlife 77
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
- American GoldfinchCarduelis tristis
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- American WoodcockScolopax minor
- Bachman's SparrowAimophila aestivalis
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Barred OwlStrix varia
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
- Blue-gray GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- 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
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
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)











































