The cover this month has a pair of
red-cockaded woodpeckers from Weymouth Woods
in the sandhills of North Carolina.
Red-cockaded woodpeckers are unlike other
woodpeckers in that they build nest cavities
in live pine trees. Other, seemingly more
sensible woodpeckers excavate their nest
cavities in the softer rotten wood of dead
trees.
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