Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Common
Name: Red-cockaded
Woodpecker (RCWO)
Scientific
Name:
Picoides
borealis
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: IUCN
2004 Red List – VU (Vulnerable)
National-level
Conservation Status:
U.S. Endangered Species Act - Endangered
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 85 (Jackson 1994); U.S. Recovery Plan in
South Florida
multi-species recovery plan (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1999)
Distribution:
Resident locally from se Oklahoma, s Missouri (formerly), s
(formerly n) Arkansas, n Mississippi, n Alabama, n Georgia, se Virginia,
and s Maryland (Dorchester County, formerly) south to e Texas, the Gulf
coast, and s Florida, and north in the Cumberland Plateau through e
Tennessee to e Kentucky. Recorded
in summer (and possibly breeding) in central Marland (AOU 1998).
Habitat
Associations:
Open mature pine woodland with grassy or sparse understory, rarely
in deciduous woodland near pine or in mixed woodland (AOU 1998).
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs (Number in ( ) is Physiographic Area number):
South Atlantic Coastal Plain Bird Conservation Plan (03); Southern Ridge
& Valley Bird Conservation Plan (13); Texas Avian Research Projects-
TARP (Texas Partners in Flight 2001); PIF Monitoring Needs document
(Partners in Flight Science Committee 2004); Note: there was no Research Needs section in the BNA.
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: Mo2 (BBS trends have very
low precision)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
NOTE: See Recovery Plan
for additional research/monitoring needs.
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – Conduct species-specific surveys (PIF Monitoring
Needs doc)
Habitat
Needs/Ecology/Life History
- Determine
the cause of high levels of bark beetle-induced mortality of RCWO
cavity trees (TARP)
Species
Interactions
- Determine
if RCWO conservation recommendations will meet the needs of other high
priority species (Southern Ridge & Valley)
Demographics
- Identify
factors influencing survival & reproduction in RCWOs (South
Atlantic Coastal Plain)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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