Red-cockaded Woodpecker Chick Banding at Piney Grove
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Red-cockaded Woodpecker Chick Banding at Piney Grove

As Watts bands the chick, the parents fly overhead.  Red-cockaded woodpeckers employ a cooperative breeding system, whereby young birds are raised by their parents and other adult red-cockaded woodpeckers in the cluster. 

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