An intensely burned forest of dense, fire-killed trees is perhaps the most maligned, misunderstood and imperiled habitat. Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily ...

An intensely burned forest of dense, fire-killed trees is perhaps the most maligned, misunderstood and imperiled habitat. Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily ...

R ecently I had a wonderful opportunity to study and photograph a pair of red-headed woodpeckers nesting in an old tree and feeding their young. All of this happened because a reader of this ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world's third largest woodpecker was ...

This common desert woodpecker replaces the closely related Nuttall’s in arid regions; the 2 species are known to hybridize at a few localities in southern California. Polytypic (about 8 ssp.

Some conservation groups also have questioned the downlisting move, saying the action is premature due to the woodpeckers' small population and fragmented habitat locations that leave it vulnerable to ...

Since then, collaborative conservation programs have worked to stabilize and rebuild red-cockaded woodpecker populations through habitat restoration and active management. Among the many ...

The red-headed woodpecker is an uncommon sight in Minnesota outside of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in East Bethel, where researchers have honed-in on dozens of breeding pairs that ...

Once abundant in states like New Jersey, Florida, Texas, and Missouri, the range of the woodpeckers decreased to only a few ...

USFWS’s ivory woodpecker recovery plan, a type of document required for each endangered species, states that conservation efforts will focus on searching for the bird and will only protect habitat ...

The company also supported emergency habitat recovery efforts after Hurricane ... of artificial cavity inserts to provide the woodpeckers with ready nests. These initiatives have significantly ...