Red Head Recovery (the bird, not the Tina Louise kind)
I got an email asking to promote a project with the Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis to address the precipitous decline of red-headed woodpeckers. The big project for 2008 is to identify and map all existing clusters of red-headed woodpeckers in Minnesota--a 'cluster' defined as two or more nesting pairs in relatively close proximity (say 1/4 mile) of each other. A cluster probably indicates good savannah habitat, which is key the recovery efforts. If you have a cluster or if you would like to learn more, visit their website.I went to check the website called www.RedHeadRecovery.org, which suddenly put the image of Amy Hooper of WildBird on the Fly needing recovery--she's a red head. I got even more of a chuckle imagining red-headed women running around when I read some of the website:
"Red-Heads often occur in loose colonies or clusters."
"Educate yourself and your neighbors to the Red-Head's habitat needs. You may be richly rewarded."
Yeah, there's a crude joke to be made in there, but I just can't put it all together at the moment.
posted by birdchick at 10:21 PM
6 Comments:
For those who repeatedly get involved with red-haired guys, there should be some kind of recovery offered for us as well.
I think a colony of loose red-heads could be fun. :-D
Silly Blogger ate my 1st comment.
It seems that this North American species suffers from the same problems as most European woodpecker species. We must learn to leave dead trees int he forests. If this is too much financial trouble for forest owners, they should get compensation from the government. Maybe certification programs like FSC can also be a long term solution for protecting bird diversity in forests.
This is possibly going to sound lame, and if it does I humbly apologize, but....
I have looked a couple of times for a beginners birding (bird watching) group here in Lexington, Kentucky and haven't found anything, nor even a sign post. I love watching birds and other animals, but really don't know one bird from another...sort of. Could you guide me to a beginner's book, perhaps, and let me know the closest bird watching group to me. My zip is 40517 if that helps any. Thanks in advance for any and all help.
I have been reading your blog for two years now. Cinnamon got me hooked, then the bird photos and information about different birds.
Thanks, dork ;p
I would love to see a red-headed woodpecker again.
Although our woods are full of all the others, downies, haries, red-bellieds and pileated--we RARELY see a red-headed. ((twice in 15 years!) :-/
Hey Amy, Birdchick wasn't thinking anything that the rest of us weren't thinking....
Of course, I don't know you well enough to know if you're in that "colony of loose redheads" or not!
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