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Red-cockaded woodpeckers are a threatened and declining species, named for a small read mark (very difficult to see) on the male's head. They depend on mature stands of long-leaf pines, drilling nest-holes in live trees to take advantage of flowing sap as a deterrent to climbing predators. Like acorn woodepeckers and Florida scrub jays, these woodpeckers breed in cooperative family groups. I found these birds in Withlacoochee State Forest in central Florida; most were individually color-banded for study. |
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