Amidst a comeback for the red-cockaded woodpecker — the South’s not-always-welcome neighbor — a new legal status and ...

Both share the black bill, gray collar and red on their faces, as well as relatively long wings and tails. Lewis’s woodpeckers were described by, and later named for, Capt. Meriwether Lewis of ...

Red-cockaded woodpeckers have been the focus of conservation efforts, including habitat restoration, artificial nest box placement and prescribed burning.