Research Forester John Ross came to work one day at Jones State Forest to discover a busload of foreigners at his front door. "Hey, mate, we're looking for the red-cockaded woodpecker," said a member ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, conservation efforts at OUC’s Stanton Energy Center in east Orlando has contributed to safeguarding one of Florida’s ...

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 ...

Biologists from several agencies and organizations have come together to make preparations for a historic woodpecker translocation, a coordinated effort to move some red-cockaded woodpeckers to the ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) – Smokey Bear has done such a good job stamping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that’s survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees ...