the red-cockaded woodpeckers were at an all-time low of an estimated 1,470 clusters. Today, the department says there are ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened.

The woodpecker once lived across much of the southeastern United States, from Virginia to Florida to Texas, in the region’s formerly extensive long-leaf pine forests — one of the largest and most ...