Red-headed Woodpecker
| Melanerpes erythrocephalus | Order: Piciformes | Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers) |
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers)
This stunning woodpecker feeds on acorns, and often sallies out to catch flying insects. It’s exceptionally vulnerable to automobile collisions and to competition for nest sites from European Starlings. I wrote quite a lot about it on this blog post.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Red-headed Woodpecker! 2024
- Acorn Woodpecker in Minnesota! 2022
- Birding from Home, 2021 2021
- Red-headed Woodpecker! 2021
- A Tale of Two Mortimers, Part I 2020
- Listener's Favorite Birds #2: Jim Baker's Blue Jay 2018
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2016
- My First Book: The Little Golden Book Bird Stamps 2014
- Conservation Big Year Target List 2011
- A Wrinkle in Time 2011
- Bird Deaths 2011
- Woodpeckers: Aldo Leopold's sawyers? 2007
- American Three-toed Woodpecker 2007
- Homesickness (from Arkansas) 2006
- Red-headed Woodpecker (from Arkansas) 2006
- Live from KUMD: Skepticism about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker 2005
- Starlings and House Sparrows 2005
- Red-headed Woodpecker 2003
- Red-bellied Woodpecker 2003
- Roadside Birding 2002
- Red-headed Woodpecker 1999
- Gettysburg 1997
- Bird Houses 1996
- Birding along I-35 1991
- European Starling 1991
- European Starling 1990
- Introduced Birds 1989
- Black-backed Woodpecker 1986
- Spring Weather 1986