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Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (RCW)
Nestling
(Photo: Derick Hamrick)
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RCW Nestlings
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RCW Drilling / Cavity
Inserts
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The Staff of Dr. J. H. Carter III &
Associates, Inc.
has 60+ years of experience conducting annual demographic monitoring of
red-cockaded woodpecker
populations throughout the Southeastern United States, as well as surveys
and management through installation of artificial cavities.
Dr.
J. H. Carter & Associates, Inc.
specializes in red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW) surveys, cavity and cluster
activity assessment, censusing and monitoring of populations, capture
and banding of nestlings and adults, habitat management, installation of
cavity restrictors, construction of artificial cavities, foraging
habitat analysis, preparation of management plans, Biological Assessments,
Safe Harbor Assessments and Habitat Conservation Plans.-
- Sample Projects:
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- Construction of 210
artificial cavities and 141 start cavities for red-cockaded woodpeckers;
banded adults and nestlings in provision clusters on Eglin Air Force
Base, Florida.
Red-cockaded woodpecker
annual demographic monitoring (5 clusters) on Dare County Range (46,621
acres), North Carolina.-
- Demographic monitoring
for red-cockaded woodpeckers (10 groups) on private timberlands in Horry,
Williamsburg, Clarendon and Marion Counties, South Carolina.
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- Red-cockaded demographic
monitoring (28 clusters on 9,732 acres) at the Palmetto Peartree-Preserve
in Tyrrell County, North Carolina.
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- Red-cockaded woodpecker
demographic monitoring of 8 mitigation clusters in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
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- Collection of nesting
data, cavity tree data, and GPS coordinates on all cavity trees within 54
RCW clusters on the Sam Houston National Forest, Texas.
Red-cockaded woodpecker demographic monitoring (6 clusters) in Horry
County, South Carolina.
Red-cockaded woodpecker demographic monitoring (9 clusters) in Cumberland
County, North Carolina.
Installation of 28 drilled cavities and 24 drilled
start cavities in 3 existing red-cockaded woodpecker clusters and 9
recruitment clusters on the Croatan National Forest, Craven and Carteret
Counties, North Carolina.
Provisioning of 76 insert boxes, 32 drilled cavities, 32
drilled starts and replacement of 3 existing insert boxes in 60
red-cockaded woodpecker clusters on the Francis Marion National Forest near McClellanville, Berkeley County, South Carolina.
Implementation of a Red-cockaded Woodpecker Habitat Conservation Plan by
provisioning artificial cavity and start trees (5 clusters), with annual
monitoring and maintenance, Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina.
Installation of 38 inserts cavities in 8 red-cockaded woodpecker
recruitment clusters and 2 existing clusters as mitigation for highway
construction, Rapides parish, Louisiana.
Red-cockaded woodpecker management for 18 clusters, including
cavity construction, restrictor installation and cavity maintenance,
Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina.
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