The female will lay 4 – 5 completely white eggs. One egg is laid each day until the clutch is complete. Incubation is done by both male and female after the last egg is laid and will last about 12 – 14 days. The baby birds will fly from the nest (fledge)in about 24 – 27.

about 27-31 days
Young. Are fed by both parents, and leave the nest at about 27-31 days. Pairs may be starting on a 2nd nesting attempt while still feeding the fledglings from the first; 2nd brood may be raised in same nest but more often in new cavity, freshly excavated. 1 or 2 broods per year.

Woodpeckers will forage for food which is why they drill in to the bark on trees. As foragers woodpeckers find their food where they can and this includes from other birds’ nests, and they will take eggs and chicks from nesting boxes and nests. Appearances can be deceptive, as they can be quite merciless when they eat.

After 2 or 3 weeks, most songbirds are usually ready to leave the nest. Other birds, such as raptors, may stay in the nest for as long as 8 to 10 weeks. In contrast, precocial birds spend hardly any time in the nest and are often seen wandering in search of food alongside their parents only hours after hatching.

The parents would grab a beak full of seeds, fly to the baby bird and poke the seeds down the baby’s open beak. During subsequent days, the baby would attempt to fly to the feeder on its own but would overshoot it and have to grab on to the trunk of another tree.

Pair bonds tend to be for life and pairs stay together all year long. During Fall and Winter the pairs roost at different locations during the night. Males sometimes use the previous nest site as their night time roost.

Pileated woodpeckers excavated nest cavities in late March and early April, incubated eggs as early as 13 May and as late as 15 June, and fledged young between 26 June and 13 July. These birds nested at 1 year of age, and some lived at least 9 years.

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Red-bellied woodpeckers are omnivorous. They eat a wide variety of fruits, nuts, seeds, berries and tree sap, as well as arboreal arthropods and other invertebrates. Red-bellied woodpeckers also eat small vertebrates, including brown and green anoles, tree frogs, small fish, nestling birds and bird eggs.

Eggs.–The red-bellied woodpecker lays three to eight eggs, usually four or five. It is a persistent layer; if the first set is taken, it will lay a second set within a week or two, generally in the same nest.

Their face and the rest of their belly are a dull grayish color. Male red-bellied woodpeckers have a bright red cap from their forehead to the base of their neck. Females have red only on the their necks. Both males and females have thick, black straight bills and dark gray legs and feet.

Foods taken by the red-bellied woodpecker include fruit, seeds, nuts, grains, and even tree sap. They also eat a wide range of invertebrates including ants, grasshoppers, beetle larvae, flies, and many types of caterpillars. They also eat small vertebrates including lizards, snakes, frogs, fish, nestling birds, and bird eggs.

The red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) is a small or medium-sized woodpecker from temperate North America. Their breeding habitat is open country across southern Canada and the eastern-central United States.