Fire is central in the world of black-backed woodpeckers, to the point that the birds pick cavities in recently burned trees to make their nests.
Black-backed woodpeckers (Picoides arcticus) are handsome birds about the size of a robin, with black and white plumage, and a little yellow cap in males.
They’re found throughout much of the forested areas of Canada, Alaska, and parts of the far northern and western U.S. After a fire chars a tract of forest, it doesn’t take long for the woodpeckers to move in.
The birds also prefer to raise their babies in snags – the blackened, skeletal remains of scorched trees – which is metal as hell, and a potential source of conflict with humans, since these burned forests are subject to salvage logging.
To figure out what kinds of burned areas should be prioritised for the woodpeckers’ conservation, Stillman and his colleagues collaborated with the Institute for Bird Populations and the U.S. Forest Service to study the birds’ breeding habitat needs.
Over eight years working in the forests of northeastern California, researchers monitored 118 woodpecker nests in six areas recently burned in wildfires, collecting information on what types of habitats the birds were settling in, and how successful their nesting efforts were.
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