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It’s still possible (amidst the scurry to take from public lands) to protect our pristine wilderness areas. This particular land near the Tennessee-Georgia border is critical as a protection for Taylor Branch, a tributary of the Conasauga River. Downy Woodpecker. Pileated Woodpecker. Photo by © Michael Todd. Bald Eagle.

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Thus, legal protections for endangered species and conservation generally are at their zenith on federal lands. For example, several bases in the Southeast—Camp Lejeune, Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, and Eglin Air Force Base—have long been managed to support large populations of Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers. This includes the military.

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P.S.: If you’ve read my previous post, you won’t be surprised to find out that the Great Spotted Woodpecker didn’t make it onto this list! Here’s to the birds that bring joy to our lives and color to our skies – may we always cherish and protect these magnificent creatures.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Part of the Labudovo okno Ramsar Wetland and protected within the Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve , this section of the Danube, downriver from Belgrade, Serbia, is unique for its wide shallows, before the river narrows downstream from the village of Ram. Mali Pesak grazing pasture , Karas-Nera Reserve (greater Deliblato Sands area).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If habitat is protected, they can also act as important pathways to fantastic places and can greatly facilitate connecting people with birds and biodiversity. High Elevations A good degree of high elevation forest is protected in Costa Rica but how to reach it? Even so, despite the big risk for biodiversity, we need roads.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

” He faces up to seven-and-a-half years in prison and fines totaling more than $500,000.

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MAY 16, 2020

After a lot of backing and forthing, the vendor accepted our offer and the wood is to become a trust to be protected in perpetuity. Blue T**s and Great T**s abound as do Greater Spotted Woodpeckers. The existing villagers joined with the newcomers organizing a whip-round to raise money in the hope of buying it.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker flew over the road and landed in a pine tree. I had two possibilities, an uncommon Middle Spotted or scarce White-backed Woodpecker – which would have been a lifer for me. One Grey-headed Woodpecker flies across the road – a promising start.

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Greece Boars Woodpeckers Eagles 255

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AUGUST 11, 2022

This was the first geological site protected in the Djerdap area, formed along a fault by incision of the Boljetinska River into the sedimentary rocks. Among the possible species there are Rock Bunting , Eurasian Wryneck , Grey-headed and Eurasian Green Woodpeckers , European Honey Buzzard , Lesser Spotted Eagle.

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Serbia Woodpeckers Birds Romania 248

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Arctic Loon), Lesser Black-backed Gull , Middle Spotted Woodpecker and Goldcrest should easily make 190, although the pecker is a bit uncertain. Oddly, in 1936 this mountain was declared a national park, the first in Serbia, but in 1946 it was stripped of its title and got a lower protection status, further confirmed in 2007.

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JUNE 17, 2024

A Japanese book on Hokkaido birds lists 6 species of woodpeckers – I saw three of them, presumably the most common ones. The most interesting of the three (at least to me) is the Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker. In contrast, the Great Spotted Woodpecker is described as a strong excavator. One paper says no.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ). Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt and picus , which means woodpecker, with the ti that connects the two parts possibly also having some kind of meaning.

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APRIL 22, 2024

As we continue exploring Nepal’s unparalleled beauty and biodiversity, let us appreciate these bright gems hidden in its forests and strive to protect them for future generations to admire.” This photo explains the scientific species name haemacephalus (bloodheaded).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

From that year onward my work became dedicated to the protection of the area, as well as promotion of local ecotourism possibilities. In the next year I visited the British Birdfair for the first time, which turned out to be the experience that changed my life.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Thanks to protection, tame and easy to see at various sites! Black-cheeked Woodpecker. The common woodpecker of the Caribbean lowlands. Not all that rare, just shy but you might see it on a quite walk in the Monteverde Reserve. Or, one might even appear at the Colibri Cafe. Great Curassow. Purple-throated Mountain-gem.

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JULY 19, 2021

It’s hard to ‘prove’ extinction, as we have seen with the continued push to ‘find’ the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.”. If the nuthatch is now extinct, we’ve lost a species that might have been saved with a greater effort to study and protect it.”. Either way, it is on the brink of extinction at least.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

In two months they will depart for valleys, leaving the bare branches bare of birds, too – apart from woodpeckers – but for now they are in the forest. A sudden flight of a forest ghost, the Black Woodpecker goes from one side of the gully to another. Black Woodpecker , photo Heinonlein/Wikimedia Commons.

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APRIL 11, 2020

There are very few reports from sites further afield although with all public and most private parks closed, a birder can’t go to such official protected areas anyways. Even second growth could reward yard birders with beauties like White-collared Manakin , Golden-hooded Tanager , and the smart looking Black-cheeked Woodpecker.

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Costa Rica Birds Mississippi Woodpeckers 256

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AUGUST 2, 2013

Severe fires create snags, they germinate seeds and sprout fungus, and most of all they create food and habitat for insects that in turn feed birds like Black-backed Woodpecker and Olive-sided Flycatcher , and encourage even some generalists like other woodpeckers and wrens. On the whole, people do not value them.

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Endangered Species South Dakota Woodpeckers Sheep 161

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JUNE 3, 2021

Once I observed a man walking his two small dogs here, passing by a perched White-tailed Eagle but looking down at grass and not noticing the largest raptor in Europe at all.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Just such an area can be found in the Sierra De La Laguna Biosphere, a mountainous area set aside for protection in 1994, which divides the southern half of the Baja, in a north to south direction. This unusual subspecies of Acorn Woodpeckers is the only known Acorn Woodpecker to have a completely black eye. angustifrons.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Is it more important to protect one’s reputation as a serious bird blogger, or to spread a bad joke? A Grey-headed Woodpecker lives nearby. He says the sound of the stream keeps him calm when woodpecker life starts getting stressful. There are some Azure-winged Magpies , which can also be found in Shanghai parks.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Assuming that the (North American) Imperial Woodpecker and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker are both extinct, the Great Slaty Woodpecker is the largest woodpecker species alive. One would think that for a species as common in Europe as the Grey-headed Woodpecker , the HBW would spend some effort to update the species entry.

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MAY 8, 2021

In birding circles, Costa Rica is better known for protected areas, quetzal tours, and glittering displays of hummingbirds than the things that fly in urban spots. Blue Jays and Northern Cardinals , Downy Woodpeckers. That makes sense. I mean, who comes to Costa Rica to bird on city streets? In remnant riparian zones?

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Casa dowii is located in Cartago Province, along the Panamerican Highway in the Navarro Sombrero Protected Area that buffers Tapanti and Los Quetzales National Parks. It consists of a small reserve with a well maintained in site trail (over 195 species recorded, many endemic and rare birds accessible), cozy lodging and a dining room.

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MARCH 25, 2021

E.g., based on so much in-city data, the software recognized towns and villages as the primary habitat for the Great Spotted Woodpecker , supposedly far more common in urban areas than in forests. The consequences were amusing. Many species have moved their ranges northward by an average of 28 km / 17.4

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JUNE 7, 2017

The cactus are not the only things down here that are protected in this manner. The Gila Woodpecker is the first to break the fruit open, gets it fill and moves on. First the Gila Woodpecker. A few minutes later, the Gila Woodpecker was back, and in a was very excited. Then, let the feeding frenzy begin!

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JULY 27, 2023

Like all members of the Nightjar family, the Buff-collared Nightjar hunts for insects on the wing, at night, and rests immobile during the day, protected by its subtle camouflage. … or Golden-cheeked Woodpeckers. (For all three of us, I should add.) Like many of them, it usually rests on the ground. … or Green Herons.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Could scientists use weather radar data to track the spread of avian influenza, and thereby help poultry growers protect their flocks? Project FeederWatch data prove that woodpeckers are at the top of the backyard bird feeder pecking order. (To see some in action, check out Bella Hummingbird’s site on Explore.org !).

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DECEMBER 24, 2013

Calilegua is the only national park in the province of Jujuy that protects 76,000 ha of Yungas forest providing a bird sanctuary for many endemic species that live in this special forest. A bit further we found the White-bellied Hummingbird and finally we heard a Cream-backed Woodpecker and soon he was climbing the trees around us.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Other species of special significance are herons and egrets (this is very important foraging area), Ferruginous Duck, as well as Lesser Spotted and European Green Woodpeckers , Spotted Flycatcher and the Icterine Warbler. Out of these 136 bird species, 108 are strictly protected and further 28 protected by Serbian legislation.

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AUGUST 17, 2019

Costa Rica is well known for national parks and other protected areas than offer access to tropical ecosystems dripping with biodiversity. Hoffmann’s Woodpecker. Our Red-bellied, Great-spotted, or Golden-fronted , this is the woodpecker that lives with people in the Central Valley of Costa Rica.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Today it is a protected reserve in the middle of the city just east of Puerto Madero which also was an old port build in the late 1800s and is now restored into a 21 st century waterfront project. Green-barred Woodpecker at work! Costanera Sur was an old riverside resort which was restored to and Ecological Reserve back in the 1970.

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MAY 18, 2023

This park protects the largest remaining tract of dry deciduous forest in the west of India, offering visitors 37 species of reptiles, 38 species of mammals and, not to be forgotten – almost 300 bird species. After several game drives, once again we are at the front gate of the Gir National Park in the state of Gujarat.

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MAY 21, 2020

For 3-4 days, opt for the hills, Tresnjica Griffon Vulture Sanctuary and the nearby Tara Mountain National Park with 140 species (not too much, but with Hazel Grouse , Ural , Pygmy and Tengmalm’s Owls , White-backed and Three-toed Woodpeckers among them). Labudovo okno to Djerdap National Park. Djerdap National Park.

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Serbia Sanctuary Bosnia Birds 317

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Their skulls contain special air sacs that protect the brain from enormous impact and water pressure. Seeing this amazing feat by these Boobies makes me think of Piliated Woodpeckers, which generate such loud sound by hammering their bills against a tree trunk. Photos: Courtesy of Miguel Moran.

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Lifestyle South America Woodpeckers Fish 191

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JUNE 7, 2013

Here, as I kept my ears and eyes open for my target species for the day – Gilded Flicker — I noticed that many of these large columnar plants were blooming, attracting a wide range of birds that included White-winged Dove , Curve-billed Thrasher , and Gila Woodpecker.

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