calsfoundation@cals.org
July 24, 2007
Until the 2004 discovery of the believed-to-be-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, the red-cockaded woodpecker was considered the rarest bird to inhabit Arkansas. With an estimated ninety-nine percent of its habitat lost, the birds numbers have fallen to under 400 in the state. In 1970, it was designated as endangered.