The woodpeckers are primarily cavity nesters ... stepped in and altered the final rule for downlistings on the Endangered Species Act. RELATED: SC bird species declared extinct, joins long ...

red-cockaded woodpeckers bore holes for nests solely in living pine trees that are generally 60-80 years old. Unfortunately, long-leaf pine ecosystems are now among the most endangered systems on ...

having first been listed as endangered in the early 1970s. The primary reason the bird landed on the federal list is because of its rather demanding habitat needs, and the wide-scale loss of that ...