Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Piciformes > Picidae > Leuconotopicus > Leuconotopicus borealisLeuconotopicus borealis (Red-cockaded Woodpecker)Synonyms: Dendrocopos borealis; Dendrocopos borealis borealis; Dendrocopos borealis hylonomus; Dryobates borealis; Picoides borealis; Picoides borealis borealis; Picoides borealis hylonomus; Picus borealis The red-cockaded woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis) is a woodpecker found in southeastern North America. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.55709 EDGE Score: 3.40878 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 48 grams | | Birth Weight [3] | 3 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Temperate eastern forests | | Wintering Geography [2] | Non-migrartory | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Temperate eastern forests | | | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | | Diet - Fruit [4] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 70 % | | Diet - Seeds [4] | 10 % | | Forages - Mid-High [4] | 50 % | | Forages - Understory [4] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 3 | | Clutches / Year [3] | 1 | | Fledging [1] | 26 days | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 15,000 | | Incubation [3] | 11 days | | Mating Display [6] | Non-acrobatic aerial display | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 16 years | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 9 inches (22 cm) | | | Female Maturity [3] | 8 months | | Male Maturity [3] | 8 months |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Big Cypress National Preserve |
V |
732120 |
Florida, United States |
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Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
616880 |
Texas, United States |
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Canaveral National Seashore |
II |
9090 |
Florida, United States |
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Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
8964 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Congaree Swamp National Park |
II |
6095 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Cumberland Island National Seashore |
II |
20629 |
Georgia, United States |
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Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve |
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Florida, United States |
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Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
66133 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Fort Pulaski National Monument |
V |
4213 |
Georgia, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Hot Springs National Park |
II |
5740 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Little St. Simons Island |
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Georgia, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
5268 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
38256 |
Florida, United States |
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Ozark National Scenic Riverways National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
54621 |
Missouri, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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