Red-cockaded Woodpecker

I attended the 2012 Florida Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festive in Titusville this weekend.  It was an extremely well run event and I had a great time.  On Saturday morning, I got up at 4:30 a.m. to see a group of three Red-cockaded Woodpeckers.

Due to habitat loss, the population of this bird is about 1% of its original size.  The population of this bird is limited to about 6,000 breeding groups, or about 14,000 birds in the Southeast United States.

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