Red-cockaded Woodpecker Photo Gallery

Adult

Small woodpecker with black-and-white ladder striped back and a white cheek. Males have a tiny, nearly invisible red streak (“cockade”) at the upper border of the cheek.

Adult male

Adult

Hitches up trees using its feet to grip the bark and its stiff tail feathers for balance. Picks at live trees for insects and to make the sticky pine resin flow from the tree where the nest is located.

Adult

Adult

Small black-and-white woodpecker with a ladder of stripes up the back and distinctive white cheeks.

Habitat

A habitat specialist of the Southeast’s once-vast longleaf pine stands with little understory.