Red-bellied Woodpecker Images

Red-bellied Woodpecker Images, Facts, and Information:

Melanerpes carolinus

  • Red-bellied Woodpeckers are medium-sized woodpeckers commonly found in forests of the East. They have pale bodies with barred backs and gleaming red caps. Their red bellies are not usually very pronounced.
  • Red-bellied Woodpeckers are nonmigratory. Red-bellied Woodpeckers are commonly found in forests, particularly in the Eastern United States. They are also known to visit wooded patches near residential areas.
  • Red-bellied Woodpeckers primarily eat insects and other invertebrates, they have also been known to consume small birds, fish, frogs, and berries.
  • Red-bellied Woodpeckers lay 3 to 8 eggs which hatch in 11 to 14 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of woodpeckers can be called a “drumming” or “descent” of woodpeckers.
  • Red-bellied Woodpeckers can live to be more than 12 years of age.

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