Lawrence Woods, the largest known mature forest in west-central Ohio, provides crucial interior forest habitat for birds whose nesting sites across the state have been greatly reduced by logging and forest clearing for agriculture. Birds that depend on mature forest habitat there include the Wood Thrush, Cerulean Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird, and Acadian Flycatcher. Other birds, including Scarlet Tanager, Eastern Wood Pewee, and Red-Eyed Vireo, are more tolerant of edge habitats and can use smaller woodlots. Pileated Woodpeckers, recognized by their distinctive red crest, also live in this state nature preserve, where they forage for insect larvae in dead and diseased trees with their pointed beaks and often nest inside hollowed-out trunks.