Red-headed Woodpecker Images, Facts and Information:<\/h2>\n
Melanerpes erythrocephalus<\/em><\/p>\n\n- Red-headed Woodpeckers are medium-sized woodpeckers found in temperate North America. They have a distinctive tricolored plumage, with a black back and tail, a white belly and rump, and a red head and neck.<\/li>\n
- Some Red-headed Woodpeckers migrate, some do not. Red-headed Woodpeckers breed in deciduous woodlands with oak or beech, groves of dead or dying trees, river bottoms, burned areas, recent clearings, beaver swamps, orchards, parks, farmland, grasslands with scattered trees, forest edges, and roadsides. During the start of the breeding season, they move from forest interiors to forest edges or disturbed areas.<\/li>\n
- Red-headed Woodpeckers primarily eat insects and other invertebrates, but they have also been known to devour small birds, fish, frogs, and even bird eggs<\/span>.<\/li>\n
- Red-headed Woodpeckers<\/span> lay 4 to 7 eggs which hatch in 12 to 14 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.<\/li>\n
- A group of woodpeckers can be called a \u201cdrumming\u201d or \u201cdescent\u201d of woodpeckers.<\/li>\n
- Red-headed Woodpeckers live to be more than 9 years of age.
\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI hope you enjoy viewing my Red-headed Woodpecker photos. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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