Experts celebrate as rare creature returns to US region after 50 years: 'Nature can do amazing things when we give her the right tools'

Experts celebrate as rare creature returns to US region after 50 years: 'Nature can do amazing things when we give her the right tools'

This threatened woodpecker found its way back home. Peachtree Rock, a nature preserve in Columbia, South Carolina, welcomed back a long-lost resident: the red-cockaded woodpecker. The red-cockaded woodpecker is a small, striped woodpecker native to the southeastern United States, including Georgia and South Carolina. The woodpecker is considered near-threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and Peachtree Rock hasn't seen…