![]() ![]() The breeding female lays three to four eggs in the breeding male's roost cavity. The nesting season runs from April to June. Red-cockaded woodpeckers are a territorial, nonmigratory, cooperative breeding species, frequently having the same mate for several years. 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. The red-cockaded woodpecker feeds primarily on ants, beetles, cockroaches, caterpillars, wood-boring insects, and spiders, and occasionally fruit and berries. ![]() The species is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN and as Endangered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Rarely visible, except perhaps during the breeding season and periods of territorial defense, the male has a small red streak on each side of its black cap called a cockade, hence its name. The red-cockaded woodpecker's most distinguishing feature is a black cap and nape that encircle large white cheek patches. Its back is barred with black and white horizontal stripes. The red-cockaded woodpecker is small- to mid-sized species, being intermediate in size between North America's two most widespread woodpeckers (the downy and hairy woodpeckers). The red-cockaded woodpecker ( Leuconotopicus borealis) is a woodpecker endemic to the southeastern United States. Picoides borealis borealis (Vieillot, 1809).Dendrocopos borealis hylonomus (Wetmore, 1941).Picoides borealis hylonomus (Wetmore, 1941).Dendrocopos borealis borealis (Vieillot, 1809). ![]()
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