10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2013
They receive no protection, and are often destroyed by salvage logging as quickly as possible. There is currently a push to place the Black-backed Woodpecker, in its Oregon/California and South Dakota populations, under the protection of the Federal Endangered Species Act.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2014
Range map courtesy of South Dakota Birds and Birding. Some of these irruptions have been attributed to a lack of wood-boring insect prey on their normal range or to overpopulation following an insect outbreak 1. Either way, they are usually due to exploitation of wood-boring beetle larvae, their primary food.
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