Red-headed Woodpecker
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
The red-headed woodpecker 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.
- Scientific name
- Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Family
- Woodpeckers
- IUCN status
- LC