A woodpeckers home is called a cavity nest which they make in a tree.
The cavity nest size for the woodpecker is around the length of the woodpecker's body.
Woodpeckers are arboreal birds of wooded habitats.
A woodpecker will reach their greatest diversity in tropical rainforests, but occur in almost all suitable habitats, including woodlands, savannahs, scrublands, and bamboo forests.
Even grasslands and deserts have been colonised by various species of woodpeckers.
Downy Woodpeckers excavate their own cavities in deciduous and mixed forests, apple orchards, groves, farms, country homes and towns.
Woodpeckers will also nest in birdhouses.
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers.
Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar and the extreme polar regions.
Excluding vagrant species, 23 woodpecker species are native to the United States.
Although they vary in form and habit, most of these birds are widespread and can be found relatively easily.
Woodpeckers are often viewed as symbols of persistence, determination, and communication, connected deeply with nature and its rhythms.
The most common reason woodpeckers use their beaks to create holes in trees is that they are looking for food.
Woodpeckers eat insect larvae that are found beneath the surface of tree bark.
Some, like the yellow-bellied sapsucker, drill into trees to feed on sap, as well as any bugs caught in the tree sap.