Missouri wildlife agencies are hoping a tiny songbird that disappeared from the state a century ago will settle in again.
Wildlife agencies released the brown-headed nuthatch into the wild in late August, after a woodlands was restored in the Mark Twain National Forest. The quarter-ounce bird disappeared from Missouri in the early 1900s after loggers cut down more than a million acres of forest. Fifty birds were released into the forest, and another 50 will be released next August.
The nuthatches are from the Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas.