Red-headed woodpecker: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the red-headed woodpecker lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Group	Woodpeckers, kingfishers, hornbills & toucans
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	2 countries
Continents	North America
Mass	5.1 g (birth weight); 71.6 g (adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Piciformes
Family	Picidae

Where does the red-headed woodpecker live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the red-headed woodpecker in 2 countries and territories across North America.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a red-headed woodpecker?

Wikidata records the following for the red-headed woodpecker: mass 5.1 g (birth weight); 71.6 g (adult weight).

Is the red-headed woodpecker endangered?

The red-headed woodpecker’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the red-headed woodpecker?

The red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) is a bird in the order Piciformes and the family Picidae, genus Melanerpes. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the red-headed woodpecker

The red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) is a mid-sized woodpecker found in temperate North America. Its breeding habitat is open country across southern Canada and the east-central United States. It is rated as least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Endangered species, having been down-listed from near threatened in 2018.

The red-headed woodpecker should not be confused with the red-bellied woodpecker, which is similar in size but has a vibrant orange-red crown and nape; the red-bellied woodpecker is named for the pale reddish blush of its lower belly and has a distinctly patterned black and white back rather than the solid black one of the red-headed woodpecker.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Red-headed woodpecker (revision 1380702118), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q578174 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).