A single red-cockaded woodpecker has been found digging a nest at a Columbia area nature preserve that hasn't documented the ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker, distinguished by its habit of carving cavities in living pine trees, is emblematic of mature ...

Red-cockaded woodpeckers were recognized as endangered in 1970 and were given protection under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The population estimate at the passing of the bill was fewer than ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker, distinguished by its habit of carving cavities in living pine trees, is emblematic of mature southeastern pine forests. These birds rely on the open, ...

Red-cockaded woodpeckers nest in live trees Most woodpecker species will drill into dead and rotten trees, but the red-cockaded variety makes its home in live long-leaf pines.

Conservationists agree that red-cockaded woodpeckers are in better shape now than they were in the late 20th century, but some say it’s too soon to remove them from the Endangered Species List.

Red-cockaded woodpeckers were first listed as endangered in 1970 after their population declined to fewer than 10,000 birds scattered across the Southeast. The precipitous fall was almost entirely due ...

A red-cockaded woodpecker is held by a biologist collecting data on the species at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Tuesday, July 30, 2019. Credit: AP/Robert F. Bukaty ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) once lived from Virginia south to Florida and west to Texas, but the bird had almost disappeared by the 1970s during the loss of habitat from ...

Neil Lalonde, left, and Barret Fortier of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service look for red-cockaded woodpeckers at the Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in Lacombe, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024.

Red-cockaded woodpeckers were one of the first species designated as “endangered” in the United States in 1970, and the birds received full protections with passage of the Endangered Species ...

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.