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Red-cockaded Woodpecker

The only photograph of a Red-cockaded Woodpecker we have received is this from Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve, Moore Co. in North Carolina. This bird is on the Audubon Watchlist and declining, probably due to fire suppression and overcutting of pine forests in the south-east, since it needs old growth pines with a clear understory to thrive.

Red-cockaded Woodpecker
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