When elk were restored to their native habitat in Missouri in 2011, the 800-pound creatures thrived.
Now the U.S. Forest Service and Missouri Department of Conservation hope for an equally successful return of a creature that weighs only a third of an ounce but was similarly wiped out in Missouri due to habitat loss.
Recently, 25 tiny brown-headed nuthatches were set free in restored pine woodlands in the Mark Twain National Forest. Their distinctive "rubber ducky squeak" may soon be heard again in the forest.
Missouri forests are home again to once-extinct nuthatch
Now the U.S. Forest Service and Missouri Department of Conservation hope for an equally successful return of a creature that weighs only a third of an ounce but was similarly wiped out in Missouri due to habitat loss.
Recently, 25 tiny brown-headed nuthatches were set free in restored pine woodlands in the Mark Twain National Forest. Their distinctive "rubber ducky squeak" may soon be heard again in the forest.
Missouri forests are home again to once-extinct nuthatch
