Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - In this July 30, 2019, file photo, a red-cockaded woodpecker looks to a biologist as it is released ...
Woodpeckers help and hurt trees. They help by devouring insects that injure trees, including ants, caterpillars and borers. They hurt trees because their pecking damages tree bark, leaving ...
At one point in the 1970s, the red-cockaded woodpecker population had dipped as low as 1,470 clusters—or groups of nests, wildlife officials said. Today, there are an estimated 7,800 clusters.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The red-cockaded woodpecker, an iconic bird in southeastern forests, has recovered enough of its population to be downlisted from an endangered species to a threatened one.
Birds are among the most mobile life forms, and they have evolved to undertake epic migrations, sometimes taking them thousands of miles each year! Woodpeckers probably aren’t the first birds that ...
Neil Lalonde found himself 40 feet above the ground one spring morning, reaching into a woodpecker nest in a loblolly pine, and pulling out a 5-day-old bird. He clasped tiny bands around its ...