Tag: yellow-billed cuckoo

October 1, 2020

USFWS downlists woodpecker, keeps protections for cuckoos

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intention to downlist the red-cockaded woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis) from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act last week.  Red-cockaded woodpeckers were...

May 6, 2020

USFWS revises critical habitat proposals for garters, cuckoo

Critical habitat designations that would reduce the critical habitat for two species of garter snakes in the southwestern United States are moving forward — seven years after being originally proposed....