The red-headed woodpecker is an uncommon sight in Minnesota outside of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in East Bethel, where researchers have honed-in on dozens of breeding pairs that ...

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The red-headed woodpecker is one of only four of North America’s 23 woodpecker species that commonly store food, such as insects, acorns and other nuts, in cracks and crevices of trees.

The woodpecker, whose entire head is completely red as if dipped in paint, was once common throughout Minnesota, but its numbers have plunged due to loss of nesting habitat — they seek cavities ...

The red-bellied woodpecker has more of an orange-red head, and the belly may or may not have a red spot. Woodpeckers of this species in the south are more likely to have a red spot on the belly.

Barb Rodenz, of rural Stewartville, sent photos of not red-headed woodpeckers but also a much larger pileated woodpecker. Larry Benson, from Mabel, said he's had red-heads at his feeder all summer.

Red-headed woodpecker: Well-named, hard to not recognize, population in decline. Its preferred habitat is savanna, scattered mature trees on an open grassy landscape.

Due to a significant loss of habitat, red-headed woodpeckers have declined dramatically in the past 35 years. It is estimated that 70% of the overall population is now gone.