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 ...

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red-cockaded woodpeckers bore holes in living pines, which ooze a sticky resin that wards off tree-climbing snakes. Their population continued to fall in the 1970s and 1980s before wildlife officials ...