Missouri Wildlife Officials Are Hoping Tiny Songbird That Disappeared From State Century Ago Will Stay In New Habitat In Mark Twain National Forest.
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The Missouri Department of Conservation and other wildlife agencies released 50 brown-headed nuthatch birds in the forest in late August.
The Songbird disappeared from the state in the early 1900s after loggers removed acres of pine forest, which the quarter-ounce birds need for habitat, The Kansas City Star reported.
The wildlife agencies restored pine woodland in the forest to house the birds.
“Brown-headed Nuthatches are pine specialists and excavate their own cavities in pine tree snags, or dead trees, every year,” State Ornithologist Sarah Kendrick said in a news release. “By creating new cavities each year, these Songbird provide cavities for other cavity-nesters, like chickadees and titmice.”
Another 50 nuthatches will be released next August. The birds came from the Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas.
“This is a great example of ecosystem restoration — when you bring back the habitat, you can bring back some of the species that have been lost along the way,” Kendrick said.
This news was originally published at stltoday.com