The Red-cockaded woodpecker (Dryobates borealis) An endangered species which has disappeared from many areas of former occurrence, with ongoing decline documented in several regions. Total population perhaps under 10,000, many of these in isolated groups facing local extinction. Causes for decline include suppression of natural fires, over-cutting of pine forest in southeast. Their habitat is the pine, most commonly longleaf pine, but inhabits other pines as well, rarely cypress (Audubon.org)