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CoastLine: Pandemic Shutdown Opens Our Eyes To Nature
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50 minutes
Released:
May 22, 2020
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Podcast episode
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The red-cockaded woodpecker is not actually red – except for a tiny, nearly invisible red streak on male birds at the upper border of their cheek. They’re mostly black and white. And they were one of the first federally-protected species – landing on the Endangered Species list in 1970 – three years after officials created the first list in 1967. (The Endangered Species Act had to wait until 1973.) Red-cockaded woodpeckers are still on that list more than half a century later. In North Carolina, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service identifies 22 species as Threatened, 44 as Endangered, and 52 as At-Risk. Loggerhead and Green Sea Turtles are protected – along with varieties of plant such as Blue Ridge Goldenrod. The Green Pitcher Plant and the Hawksbill Sea Turtle show up on the Endangered list, and the Magnificent Ramshorn Snail – a small mollusk – despite its grand name and whom we met on this program nearly a year ago – is considered at-risk. On this edition, we find out how biologists
Released:
May 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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