Red-cockaded Woodpecker

The Red-CockadedWoodpecker

Picoides borealis

Scientific name?

Sources:http://www.ncwildlife.org/Conserving/Species.aspx#5528111-birdshttp://pelotes.jea.com/AnimalFact/Birds/woodpeck.htmhttp://hubpages.com/hub/North-Carolina-Woodpeckershttp://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/red-cockaded_woodpecker/lifehistory

Where is it found?

Red-cockaded woodpeckers can be found in the southern pine forests of North Carolina

These woodpeckers find their homes in pine forests, the same forests that lumber companies love. The destruction of the long leaf pine forest is the biggest reason for their decline.

Because of their rapid decline, due to habitat destruction, wherever they are found now becomes protected land

How are they being protected?

Why are they in danger?

The birds need the trees for:- Food- Nest cavities- & to have somewhere to lay their eggs

Cool Fact

It can take up to two years or more for a red-cockaded woodpecker to drill a hole into a tree big enough for a nest cavity.