Why Are They Endangered?
One of the problems is that woodpeckers to pack also in wood houses and destroy parts of them or they eat crops and fruits. This is a problem to the people living in the houses and the farmers. To prevent this to happen they use toxins, traps and sometimes shoot them. Unfortunately this causes the woodpeckers to be killed in most cases.
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The biggest problem that is facing the wood peckers is habitat destruction. In fact the Ivory-billed woodpecker is very rare due to this problem. Historically, the bird only lived in the ancient forests in southern United States. These areas had hardwood trees, which the woodpecker preferred. During the American Civil War, most of these forests were leveled and the natural habitat destroyed for the bird.
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Climate change may also be a problem. For example Francis Marion National Forest, which at the time held the largest population of red-cockaded woodpeckers, suffered a direct hit by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 destroyed 87 percent of the nesting cavity trees within the Forest. And in 2001, Kentucky’s population of red-cockadeds was destroyed, following a devastating outbreak of the southern pine beetle. Drought stress, beetle outbreaks and increases in the frequency and severity of forest fires could reduce the availability of mature forest that most species of woodpeckers need.
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