Woodpecker biologist Daniel Saenz now has the data to show that frustrated scientists aren’t imagining things. Pileated woodpeckers really are attracted to the homes of red-cockaded woodpeckers.
Saenz of the Wildlife Habitat Laboratory in Nacogdoches, Texas, frets over the cavities that the small, endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers peck out of healthy pine trees.
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