This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The Kaempfer’s woodpecker, aka Piauí woodpecker, can only be found in Brazil. They seem to prefer bamboo forests. These woodpeckers were previously named caatinga woodpecker. Due to habitat loss and destruction at the hands of farming, ranching, logging, dams, roads, and railroads (which divide their territory); fires; and fire suppression, […]

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