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A Birder’s Guide to U.S. Federal Public Lands

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Several endangered species are (or have been) highly dependent on specific tracts of federal land. Thus, legal protections for endangered species and conservation generally are at their zenith on federal lands. For example, Whooping Cranes winter almost exclusively at Aransas NWR in Texas.

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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

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As I got out of my car, about fifty feet from Manzanita Lake, I heard the loud drumming of a woodpecker. I didn’t know what species of woodpecker it was, but I knew it was just in the clearing on the other side of the road. A Conservation Strategy for the Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) in California.

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Spotting Red-cockaded Woodpeckers on Eglin Air Force Base

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Red-cockaded Woodpecker. It also meant Red-cockaded Woodpeckers could be nearby. Red-cockaded Woodpeckers are rare. As a result of development and loss of their habitat, their populations have vastly declined , and they have been listed as a federally Endangered Species. I had to agree.

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Endangered Birds: 50th Anniversary for the Class of 1967

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Before the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. endangered species was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. American Ivory-billed Woodpecker – Campephilus p.

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Fire and Rain

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Severe fires create snags, they germinate seeds and sprout fungus, and most of all they create food and habitat for insects that in turn feed birds like Black-backed Woodpecker and Olive-sided Flycatcher , and encourage even some generalists like other woodpeckers and wrens.

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Seeking the Bahama Nuthatch

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It’s hard to ‘prove’ extinction, as we have seen with the continued push to ‘find’ the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.”. They are the only thing we have to go back to with regard to extinct and in many cases highly endangered species such as this. That makes the two study skins that Bond collected even more significant, Weckstein says.

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Win a Birdwatching Adventure in Peru!

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A half-hour hike takes you to the lake, where you’ll glide in a wooden canoe across a beautiful, mirror-like, oxbow lake that is home to many endangered species. Be on the lookout for toucans, woodpeckers, trogons, among many other species. In the meantime enter to win the trip !

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