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 bird’s numbers have fallen to under 400 in the state. In 1970, it was designated as endangered.

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