http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080402_12_OKLAH21480
Oklahoma to get $186,000 to benefit red-cockaded woodpecker
By Associated Press
4/2/2008 11:38 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is getting a grant of $186,000 to benefit the red-cockaded woodpecker.
The money is part of nearly $58 million in grants to 23 states and one territory to support conservation planning and acquisition of vital habitat for threatened and endangered fish, wildlife and plants.
In Oklahoma, the funding will be used to expand the McCurtain County Wilderness Area and support a reforestation effort in the Ouachita National Forest.
The grants were announced Tuesday by Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne.
I have said bird checked off in my "birds of Oklahoma" book as being sighted. So, there!
You can sight them in my backyard. They like the seed blocks I put out in the winter. They also enjoy hammering away on my metal chimney cover early Sunday mornings.
Is this part of the reparations for years of woodpecker discrimination?
Such a maligned bird.
Red-cockaded woodpecker?
You couldn't name a bird that in this century. I can just imagine teaching teenagers about it, they would be rolling on the floor. Just think of the possibilities of a school assembly about endangered birds.
Johnny, you need to come dressed as the Red-cockaded Woodpecker. . . .
We've got a pair of what I thought were Downy Woodpeckers that drop in at Cafe Suet. They are smaller than these, right?
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Interesting Facts
A group of woodpeckers has many collective nouns, including "a descent of woodpeckers", "a drumming of woodpeckers", and a "gatling of woodpeckers."