BirdNote’s theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler. ML105749 Red-cockaded Woodpecker, recorded by G Keller, used as feature at 0:05 and as ambient through 0:50. # Senior Producer: John Kessler Production Manager: Allison Wilson Editor: Ashley Ahearn Producer: Mark Bramhill Associate Producer: Ellen Blackstone Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. After all, they’ve already figured out how to deal with pesky snakes. If more of their forest habitat is protected, these rare woodpeckers will have an even better chance at survival. And the number of nesting pairs has increased in some areas. Males and females look alike, except the adult male has a small tuft of red feathers above his cheek. Numerous white spots in horizontal rows on back give it a ladder-like appearance. It has a black head with large white patches on its cheek. There is some good news: the woodpeckers seem happy to inhabit man-made nest cavities cut into large trees. Small woodpecker, slightly larger than a bluebird. The mature, open longleaf pine woods the woodpeckers require are largely gone, and the birds have been designated as endangered for more than 50 years. After excavating a nest cavity in a living tree - which can take a year or more - the birds peck holes around the nest cavity, causing sap to flow downward, a barrier to climbing predators. The nest belongs to a family of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers. A few feet below the nest, the snake encounters a sheet of pine sap, a roadblock that sends it back down the tree, hungry. But the snake’s in a sticky situation - literally. The hungry snake is climbing the rough bark toward a woodpecker’s nest hole for a meal of eggs. In a Southeastern forest, a six-foot-long rat snake slithers up the trunk of a large longleaf pine tree.
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