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A Red-cockaded Woodpecker visits its nest cavity. Photo by Stephanie DeMay.
16 October 2019

AOS

Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Nesting Season Meets Climate Change

Early in their ecology classes, students learn that plants and animals facing a changing climate have three options: adapt, move, or die.

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Researchers collecting data in a patch of burned forest. Photo by Jean Hall.
06 August 2019

AOS

Black-backed Woodpeckers & the Emerging Threat of Homogenous Forest Fires

It’s fire season again in northern California. In some parts of the state, the evenings will glow with those too-familiar burnt orange sunsets while residents keep a wary eye on the news.

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25 February 2019

AOS

Helmeted Woodpeckers Roost Exclusively in Decay-Formed Tree Cavities

Woodpeckers make holes in trees. Don’t they?

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