Red Headed Woodpecker Weymouth Woods Preserve North Carolina Stock Photography

As is the case with other Woodpeckers, Red headed’s are cavity nesters. Using their bills dig out holes in the tree trunks, they’ll make their homes inside dead trees, rotten branches, stumps, in telephone poles, fences, and utility poles between 8 to 80 feet above the ground. They especially prefer habitats with very little ground cover below and even in swamps with groves of dead trees in standing water.