Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

tags: Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, Picoides borealis, Joel Sartore, National Geographic, image of the day Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) Estimated 12,210 breeding birds. Image: Joel Sartore/National Geographic [larger view]. Joel Sartore has shared some of his work on this blog before, so I am thrilled to tell you that National Geographic also appreciates his exemplary work. You can view more endangered animals of the United States that were photographed by the talented Joel Sartore here at National Geographic online. All images appear here by permission of National Geographic…