A second phase to reintroduce a "mostly lost" bird to the Ozarks is set to happen soon.
Missouri Department of Conservation, along with partners, will start their reintroduction efforts this month for the brown-headed nuthatch.
The small songbird was locally extinct in Missouri because of the removal of shortleaf pine woodlands across the Ozarks at the start of the 20th century, according to MDC.
"Millions of acres of pine woodland existed in the state prior to widespread logging that denuded the Ozarks in the late 1800s and early 1900s," MDC stated via news release.