The US Department of Agriculture
says that red-cockaded woodpeckers are beginning to flourish in the southeast
again.
Red Cockaded
Woodpeckers were once found throughout 90 million acres of longleaf pine forests
in the southeast.
Because
of the destruction of much of their habitat the species fell to fewer than 2000
active clusters of 1 to 5 birds in 1990.
A
recent population study found about 3,150 active clusters across the southeast.
The
Apalachicola National forest has the largest population of the red cockaded
woodpeckers in the world.
Some of
the strongest growth has come in the Wakulla District population.
In the
spring of 2005 there were 106 active clusters in this population.
That
increased to 203 active red-cockaded clusters in 2015, marking another
population milestone.
This
fall, there are plans to relocate another 15 pairs of the woodpeckers over to
the Wakulla District.
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