Red-bellied Woodpecker

Melanerpes carolinus

Red-bellied Woodpecker photographed by Hassan
Poughkeepsie

When to look

Reported most in May, across 15.4M open records.

Records by month. January, 1,255,014 records. February, 1,400,471 records. March, 1,362,239 records. April, 2,015,366 records. May, 2,338,314 records. June, 980,862 records. July, 671,872 records. August, 681,016 records. September, 1,150,997 records. October, 1,349,181 records. November, 1,050,689 records. December, 1,136,203 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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