The Jamaican Woodpecker has a relatively long bill. It eats both plant and animal matter and forages by probing bark and bromeliads.
Both sexes have relatively long bills, with males tending to be somewhat larger in body and bill size than females.
It eats fruit as well as animal prey, probes and pecks at substrates, and searches among bromeliads. Its diet includes both plant and animal matter.
In the 1969–1972 Jamaican study, 36 of 68 nest sites were in dead branches of living trees.
Both sexes excavate the nest hole. At four nests observed in Jamaica, males spent more time excavating than females.
In observations in Jamaica, both sexes incubated during the day, while only the male incubated at night.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.