WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Picoides borealis | Red-Cockaded Woodpecker 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The current range of the red-cockaded woodpecker extends from eastern
Texas and southeastern Oklahoma eastward through the Gulf Coast states,
south to the Big Cypress preserve of southern Florida, and north as far
as Tennessee, south-central Kentucky, and eastern Virginia and Maryland
[2,22].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES16 Oak-gum-cypress


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AR
    
FL
    
GA
    
KY
    
LA
    
MD
    
MS
    
NC
    
OK


    
SC
    
TN
    
TX
    
VA
    

    

    

    

    

    





BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K115  Sand pine scrub
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    45  Pitch pine
    69  Sand pine
    70  Longleaf pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    73  Southern redcedar
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    98  Pond pine
   100  Pondcypress


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Red-cockaded woodpeckers are commonly associated with mature, open
stands of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), loblolly pine (P. taeda),
shortleaf pine (P. echinata), and slash pine (P. elliottii)
[20,21,25,26,45].  They also occupy stands of pitch pine (P. rigida),
pond pine (P. serotina), pondcypress (Taxodium distichum), and mixed
pine-hardwood stands [21,44].  The largest populations of red-cockaded
woodpeckers are found in longleaf pine-dominated stands [11,28].  In
central Florida, DeLotelle and others [13] found that red-cockaded
woodpeckers foraged primarily in longleaf pine and pondcypress stands
with dense ground cover of broomsedge bluestem (Andropogon virginicus).



REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Picoides borealis | Red-Cockaded Woodpecker