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A red-bellied woodpecker rests on a branch of a dogwood tree after a winter storm near Knightdale, N.C. on Feb. 17, 2015. Aaron Moody/amoody@newsobserver.com Woodpeckers love this kind of wood, siding
Predators of adult red-bellied woodpeckers include birds of prey such as sharp-shinned hawks and Cooper's hawks, black rat snake, and house cats. Known predators of nestlings and eggs include red-headed woodpeckers, owls , pileated woodpeckers , eastern gray squirrels , fox squirrels , gray rat snakes , and black rat snakes.
Grey-breasted woodpecker: Melanerpes hypopolius: southwestern Mexico. Yucatan woodpecker: Melanerpes pygmaeus: Belize and Mexico Red-crowned woodpecker: Melanerpes rubricapillus: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and Tobago. Gila woodpecker: Melanerpes uropygialis: southwestern United States and western Mexico. Hoffmann's ...
Red-crowned woodpecker: Melanerpes rubricapillus (Cabanis, 1862) 51 Gila woodpecker: Melanerpes uropygialis (Baird, SF, 1854) 52 Hoffmann's woodpecker: Melanerpes hoffmannii (Cabanis, 1862) 53 Golden-fronted woodpecker: Melanerpes aurifrons (Wagler, 1829) 54 Velasquez's woodpecker: Melanerpes santacruzi (Bonaparte, 1838) 55 Red-bellied woodpecker
The red-cockaded woodpecker feeds primarily on ants, beetles, cockroaches, caterpillars, wood-boring insects, and spiders, and occasionally fruit and berries.The vast majority of foraging is on pines, with a strong preference for large trees, though they will occasionally forage on hardwoods and even on corn earworms in cornfields.
A Carolina chickadee cavity nest site, previously made by a red-bellied woodpecker Their breeding habitat is mixed or deciduous forests in the United States from New Jersey and Pennsylvania west to southern Kansas and south to Florida and Texas ; there is a gap in the range at high altitudes in the Appalachian Mountains where they are replaced ...
The red-headed woodpecker should not be confused with the red-bellied woodpecker, which is similar in size but has a vibrant orange-red crown and nape; the red-bellied woodpecker is named for the pale reddish blush of its lower belly and has a distinctly patterned black and white back rather than the solid black one of the red-headed woodpecker.
The red-breasted and red-naped sapsuckers interbreed where their ranges overlap. [8] Sapsuckers are in the Picidae, or woodpecker, family, in the order Piciformes. Two subspecies are recognised: [7] S. r. ruber (Gmelin, JF, 1788) – south Alaska to west Oregon; S. r. daggetti Grinnell, 1901 – southwest USA