#red cockaded woodpecker

[scottpartridge]

Another chromatic arrangement of @artomat blocks

[tenth-sentence]

Should such behavior come to light, one can only dread the consequences for this, or any other, endangered species whose survival depends on human assessment is its "moral conduct".

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[birdstudies]

July 3, 2023 - Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Dryobates borealis) Requested by: @didaodi These woodpeckers live in pine forests with open understories in the southeastern United States. Foraging in groups, they eat arthropods and their larvae and eggs, as well as seeds and fruit. Males forage on the upper trunks and branches of trees and females forage on the trunks below the branches. Breeding cooperatively, they excavate several cavities in live pine trees with wood softened by red heart fungus and create holes around the entrances that drip sap to deter crawling predators. Family groups of two to five, including a breeding pair and several young male helpers, incubate the eggs and care for the chicks in one of the cavities. They are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN due to a large population decline from habitat loss, though recent conservation efforts have helped them recover in some parts of their range.

[bumblebeeappletree]

One of the most inspiring conservation stories in American history is playing out on, of all places, a live-fire training ground at Ft. Liberty Army base in North Carolina. There, an improbable alliance is giving a special bird—the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW)—a new lease on life. After a clash between U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Army revealed that low-grade forest fires sparked by artillery and tracers inadvertently created excellent woodpecker habitat, the two sides joined forces to monitor and protect the birds on the base. Landowners on nearby properties are joining the effort—putting aside mutual suspicions and using fire to save the RCW and ignite a passion for wildlife.

[k-star-holic]

'Squid Game 2', Gut controversies at the top of the tower "I'm sorry for the inconvenience"

Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com

[brucestambaughsblog]

A New Life Bird!

Please click on the photo to view the Red-cockaded Woodpecker. Photo by Bruce Stambaugh. I found it on the way home from Florida. Without success, I had looked for the Red-cockaded Woodpecker in South Carolina’s Cheraw State Park. I had also searched extensively for the rare bird in the tall pines of Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near Folkston, Georgia. Since we would pass by Cheraw State…

[vilebird]

BOTH TOO MUCH AND NOT ENOUGH

1) "I have been found wanting, Natalie thought; I have made myself unacceptable and am not worthy." - hangsaman, by shirley jackson

2) text: "meat must be beaten brutal into tenderness, that any body softens with violence, she grinds salt into the carcass, like a wound, a memory". image: a carcass of beef, cleaned, with the ribs on prominent display, painted in oils and rendered in thick strokes of red, orange, tan and white, on a plain dark red background. the text is cutouts on top, dark red text on light tan. - Family Portrait as Unfinished Meal, by Torrin A. Greathouse and Le Bœuf by Chaim Soutine. collage put together by @invisiblemonstrosity

3) a pale hand crushing ripe red strawberries, green leaves still attached, on a plain white background. - apparently by ouiloved on flickr, but they seem to have deleted.

4) bust photo of a tan person with a spotlight on them outside in the dark, head turned down, shoulder length messy wet black hair obscuring their face. their hand is raised to their chest and they are wearing a white tank top. fake blood is splattered and wiped around their chest and mouth. - i can't actually find this one all my attempts lead back to unsourced tumblr posts if you know where its from. help me

5: "You have no one who has any sort of consideration for you. You have had patience and endurance, and what have they done for you? Half-killed you." - carlyle’s house and other sketches, by virginia woolf

6: "try your whole life to be righteous and be good, wind up on your own floor, choking on blood" - sept 15th 1983, by the mountain goats

7: "such a waste of a girl, such rumination. i am obsessive. i contain nothing but the replay. i am blood and blood and replay. i am please don't go." - i put the coffin out to sea, by lisa marie basile

8: an image of a partially bald baby bird begging for food, drawn in the desaturated greens and black of a trailcam, on top, the text reads "i am asking you for something i need", on bottom, the text reads "why is it so hard to give it to me?" - trailcam baby, by @quezify

9: "was i raised without love? / or was i born unloveable?" - @psychwarded

10: "I, in my corner, with my monstrous needs." - As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, susan sontag

11: "oh, i know that i'm not whole, and sometimes feel the flies swarming, like much of me is rotten." - roadkill ode, chad abushanab

12: a photo of a cut tree where much of the centre is rotted from fungus, accompanied by the text: "heart rot in pine. heart rot is the softening of a pine trees resinous heartwood, caused by an in-dwelling fungus. not all pines have it, but those that do make the excavation of a tree-hole next cavity easier for the red-cockaded woodpecker."

13: "rot made a home inside my body." - i know it's from "bloat" but cant find the authors name again. i think it starts with a c?

14: photo of an abandoned house in shades of brown and beige and orange, the walls are wet and scuffed and the drywall has been torn open in places, exposing the old lath. - abandoned, by @jaggedplains

15: photo of a mouldy strawberry, fading from bright red to grey-green fluff - Strawberry Gray Mold disease stock photo, by MediaProduction on gettyimages

16: "you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they're gonna find out" - tumblr post by @twoheadedfawnn

17: "we are meat, we are potential carcasses,' he once said. 'if i go into a butcher's shop i always think it is surprising that i wasn't there instead of the animal." - francis bacon

18: "you dangle on the leash of your own longing; your need grows teeth." - speeches for dr frankenstein, by margaret atwood

19: photo of a python hanging off a roof coiled around a black and white bird, poised to eat it - i heard some noise on the roof this morning, by candycane7 on reddit

20: "all that matters is that you want to hurt me. all that matters is that you want me." - when rome falls, by yves olade

21: "god told me i was forgiven and then he split me open" - god is made of hunger and i am made of dreams, by katie maria

22: "but this is not about love. once a pig is hung and cut straight, cut from rectum to neck, step inside her death like it is a room: that is how to touch her now. the lord said, you must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses. then came the end of the rib." - oh let's just be hogs, by gregory emilio

23: photo of a strawberry cut in half with its leaves attached. it is bright red, steel knife wet. the background is bright white and plain. - cut strawberry by liz west on flickr

24: photo of a handmade cloth sculpture of a dead autopsied pigeon, red zipper like an incision opening to its empty red interior, small cloth and thread organs arranged around it. - pandora: city pigeon, by jessica bartram

25: '"u need a therapist" actually i need to be euthanized' - tumblr post by deactivated user @122mg

[whatsthebird]

What's the Bird?

Location: Marion County, Indiana

Date: January

We ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.

Happy Birding!

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[typhlonectes]

Are Woodpeckers Evolving To Look Like Each Other? A New Study Says Yes

By Marc Devokaitis

Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers are a classic case of confusing species. 

Both woodpeckers sport similar black-and-white plumages, males of both species don a red mark on the back of their heads, and the two species’ habitats and ranges overlap considerably.

But despite being look-alikes, these two species are not that closely related. Their genetic lineages split off from a shared ancestor over 6 million years ago—about as far back as chimps and humans split. The Hairy Woodpecker is more closely related to the very different looking Red-cockaded Woodpecker, while the Downy is closer to Nuttall’s Woodpecker.

A new study published in April in the journal Nature Communications provides strong evidence that Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers are an example of “plumage mimicry”—one species of bird evolving to match the plumage patterns and colors of another. And the researchers found more instances of woodpecker doppelgangers all around the world, including Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers that look like Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Europe; and Cardinal Woodpeckers that look like Gabon Woodpeckers in Africa...

Read more:  https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/are-woodpeckers-evolving-to-look-like-each-other-a-new-study-says-yes

[scottpartridge]

A new batch of Art-O-Mat blocks includes a Japanese Scops Owl and meny others.

[ostdrossel]

Recently, on a quest to make my apartment feel more like "home", I've been decorating the walls and I came across a window mounted bird feeder. Well, once getting that I went a little crazy for my tiny budget, bought several bags of seed. It was a rocky journey of "why won't they stay!!" But I have two seed feeders with different mixes, I hung a potted plant (and I'm working on windowsill plants too since I'm far from cover) and attached a suet feeder to it, and bought and applied blackout window tint so my cat isn't scary. I was thinking of you and your amazing variety the whole time, because all I've got coming is cardinals. But today, at the suet feeder, I had a red bellied woodpecker! It made my heart soar! He was too quick for a picture but here's a cardinal

I used to do bird tagging (cardinals are so mean) and work with red cockaded woodpeckers, so I didn't expect the excitement, but I was so thrilled I had to share and thank you for the inspiration.

I love that project of yours! And who would complain about Cardinals? :D You could try to experiment with a hummingbird feeder too. The nectar is cheap and easy to make (1 part regular white sugar, four parts water), and feeders come in all price classes. Or add a bowl of water. Birds love to bathe and drink, and it is awesome to watch them do it. Yay for your little oasis! May the birds flock your way!

[swede1952]

Yes? Can I help you?

Here is a male red bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) peeking from behind a tree trunk.

"For birds that nest in cavities, nest holes are precious turf. Red-bellied Woodpeckers have been known to take over the nests of other birds, including the much smaller (and endangered) Red-cockaded Woodpecker. But more often they’re victims to the aggressive European Starling. As many as half of all Red-bellied Woodpecker nests in some areas get invaded by starlings." - allaboutbirds.org

@birdcounter

[ouachitafolkwitch]

Local witchcraft | Endangered AR Species | Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis)

endangered in Arkansas

Near Threatened in general (G3 rating)

Associations/Correspondences (I created these myself based on what I've learned about their ecological roles so far)

Plants:

Pine trees, preferably Longleaf pines (Pinus palustris)

This species is the only American woodpecker that bores holes in only living trees (as opposed to the rest of the woodpeckers who bore their homes in dying trees).

Forages wild fruit and berries

Insects:

eats ants, beetles, cockroaches, caterpillars, wood-boring insects, spiders, and corn earworm moths

Magick:

Love (territorial, nonmigratory, cooperative breeding species, frequently having the same mate for several years).

Protection (territorial, cooperative breeding)

Harmony (Cooperative breeding)

Renewal, regeneration (I personally associate all threatened species with the possible capability of renewal, regeneration, and restoration; additionally, abandoned woodpecker homes make new homes for other birds and small tree-dwelling mammals.)

Perseverance (Cavities bored by these woodpeckers are generally excavated over 1 to 3 years.)

[nationalparkpatchlady]

Happy Birthday to the nation's first national preserve - @bigthicketnps!⁠ ⁠ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️⁠ Signed into law on this day in 1974 (just 10 minutes before its twin park Big Cypress National Preserve), the Big Thicket became a unique designation in the National Park Service allowing for protection and the historic utilization of resources by those who resided within its borders.⁠ ⁠ 📷 📷 📷⁠ 1. carnivorous pitcher plants⁠ 2. the Godmother of the Big Thicket, Maxine Johnston⁠ 3. beautiful old trees along the paddling trail⁠ 4. Cypress knees⁠ 5. paddling along the Cooks Lake to Scatterman trail⁠ 6. saw palmetto in the swamps of Big Thicket⁠ 7. The famous Madonna tree⁠ 8. longleaf pine plugs for the annual plantings in the Big Thicket⁠ 9. the endangered Red Cockaded woodpecker - which has the opportunity to be reintroduced into the park within the next 5 years.⁠ ⁠ 📍: Big Thicket National Preserve, TX⁠ ⁠ #IBrakeForBrownSigns ⁠ #nationalparkgeek ⁠ #RecreateResponsibly⁠ ..................................................⁠ (at Big Thicket National Preserve) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjk6yNCtMnh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sunriseverse]

beloved i am exhausted... can i have some viccor tattoo HCs to heal my brain...

yes you may <3 this isn’t very long i apologise but i hope you like it!!

okay SO. you would probably assume just looking at them that cor has more tattoos. and you would be WRONG. (i love subversion). (to be fair most of victoria’s tattoos aren’t visible with what she wears, but i digress.)

victoria has a bracelet tattoo on her left wrist that’s a line of barbed wire, but there’s hydrangeas in blue and pink managing the grow around the barbs. across her shoulders there’s a red-cockaded woodpecker with the inscription “persist” beneath it. the rest of her back is various species of endangered flowers and plants native to georgia forming a tapestry (georgia aster, rockcress, royal catchfly, and carolina birds-in-a-nest being the most prominent pieces within it).

cor only has two tattoos, a stylised pirate ship on her right bicep that says “ftp pirate radio” under it, and a rose with a dagger behind it on the inside of her wrist.

[naturecoaster]

May Hernando Audubon Activities

The Hernando Audubon Society works to promote an awareness and appreciation of nature, to preserve and protect natural ecosystems, and to encourage responsible environmental stewardship. May Hernando Audubon Activities Hernando Audubon End-of-Season Picnic, Thursday, May 2, at Lake Townsen Regional Park. The park is at 28011 Lake Lindsey Road (County Road 476), east of U.S. 41. A bird walk is at 5 p.m., and dinner at 6 p.m. Participants are asked to bring their own place settings and a side dish to share. For more information, contact Vera: billandverahuckaby@gmail.com or 352-848-5776. Hernando Audubon birding trip to Croom Tract of Withlacoochee State Forest, Saturday, May 4. At 6:15 a.m. meet on the south side of Croom Road (CR-480) at the horse corral at the intersection with Forest Road 7. This is 7 miles east of US-41. Find Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Bachman’s Sparrow, and other resident forest birds. Rest rooms and drinking water are a mile away. We’ll walk through some brush, so wear long pants and closed-toe shoes. Make reservations with Bev: bevalhansen@gmail.com or 352-686-0460. Hernando Audubon Adopt-A-Road Cleanup, Saturday, May 11, 8 to 10 a.m.  Help pick up trash on Northcliffe Blvd. between U.S. 19 and Deltona Blvd. High school students will receive credit for community service. Meet at 8 a.m. at the parking lot of Good Shepherds Plaza, 8417 Northcliffe Blvd., Spring Hill. To volunteer, contact Steve.Smetko@frontier.com or 352-247-9793. Hernando Audubon Birding Trip to Perry Oldenburg Wildlife and Environmental Area, Saturday, May 18. At 7:30 a.m. meet in the parking lot at 13489 Government Road, Brooksville. From U. S. 41, turn east on Deer Run Road. At the intersection with Government Road, go straight in the right lane. (Don’t depend on your GPS; it might lead you to the wrong entrance.) Along the 1.5-mile trail through sandhill and hardwood hammock and a powerline right-of-way, expect to see American Kestrel, Bachman’s Sparrow, Eastern Bluebird, hawks, woodpeckers, other woodland bird species, and butterflies. Make reservations with Claudia: camsler36@gmail.com or 813-244-0305. Read the full article