{"id":17203,"date":"2022-11-30T15:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T20:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=17203"},"modified":"2024-08-13T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:22:55","slug":"saving-the-red-cockaded-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/saving-the-red-cockaded-woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturalist\u2019s Notebook: Saving the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
with This Bird Still Needs Our Help<\/em>, video from PBS’s Sci NC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By studying both the direct and indirect effects of climate change on the animal kingdom, a rising generation of new scientists has the opportunity to make new discoveries \u2014 findings that managers and others can use to inform conservation efforts. Lauren D. Pharr, Ph.D. student at NC State\u2019s College of Natural Resources and an award-winning science communicator with North Carolina Sea Grant, is among them. Pharr\u2019s research, which recently appeared on PBS\u2019s Sci NC <\/em>(below), addresses the potential impacts of climate change on the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, a species that inhabits longleaf pines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n