RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) - After decades of conservation efforts, a southeastern U.S. bird is no longer considered endangered. The Department of Interior announced today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

One of Southwest Florida's most popular bird species is growing in population after struggling for several decades. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker ...

Biologists were surprised to hear recently that a once-rare woodpecker had been spotted in a forest west of Columbia for the first time in 50 years. But in checking things out, they verified that a ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service downgraded the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened on Oct. 24, 2024. (Renee Bodine/USFWS) (CN) — Federal wildlife officials removed the red-cockaded ...

The once-endangered red-cockaded woodpecker is showing signs of recovery in central Louisiana's Kisatchie National Forest.

The red-cockaded woodpecker, an iconic bird in Southeastern forests, has recovered enough of its population to be upgraded from an endangered species to a threatened one, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the red-cockaded woodpecker has recovered enough to be downlisted from endangered to threatened. The woodpecker once lived across ...

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...

In the cold, blustery days of January, one bird species brings joy and light. Its name alone, downy woodpecker, exudes a sense of warmth, and if you have any trees in your neighborhood, you most ...

It’s the first day of spring and while you’re outside enjoying the sounds of nature, one sound might be overpowering this time of year: the knock of woodpeckers. Spring is the height of woodpecker ...