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Rare woodpecker expected to draw crowds to Brevard’s birding festival

Diehards will fork out as much as $75 to hop on buses at 5 a.m. this week to peep at tree holes in hopes of a glimpse at one of North America’s rarest woodpeckers. The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker can’t match the mystique of the ivory billed woodpecker, believed extinct since the 1940s. But the elusive [...]