Red Cockaded Woodpeckers

Biologists were dealt a crushing blow last year—an endangered woodpecker, native to the Southeast U.S. was declared extinct. Now some are declaring victory for another endangered woodpecker that makes its home in North Florida and South Georgia, but others argue the declaration of victory for the Red-cockaded Woodpecker is premature.

Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers were one of the first bird species to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Back in the 1970s, their numbers were in the low thousands. It has taken decades for the bird to recover, but it has -- to the point where now federal officials are considering downlisting it from endangered to threatened.

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