Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas

Eurekalert ^ | 28-Apr-2005

[dts32041]

Would somebody get the Toon out of the bushes.

[MississippyMuddy]

Kewl post :)

Jeff

[yarddog]

I read awhile back that the Carl Zeiss company in Germany had sponsored an expedition to Louisianna because someone had recorded what sounded like the sound of that same bird.

They never found one and decided it was the sound of a .22 rifle. I now wonder if it might have really been one.

[LexBaird]

Oddly enough, North America's biggest peckerwood also hails from Arkansas.

[itsahoot]

Evolution must have decided to just remake them.

[FormerACLUmember]

One of Arkansas' two leading peckerwoods:

[againstallhope]

Cool post to say the least. This is very very exciting. It's also known as the 'Good Lord' bird, the reaction people use to have on seeing it for the first time. That's how impressive it is. Hopefully the habitat can be preserved. I know that doesn't fly well with a lot of republicans, the idea of actually leaving a large swath of territory alone. I'm not against drilling in ANWR, but you know what I mean. (On the other hand, there really isn't a good reason to drill up there either.)

[konaice]

This ought to be good for locking up several hundred thousand square miles of wild lands. /sarcasm.....

[Slump Tester]

I hear they taste just like whooping crane.

[struggle]

>>This ought to be good for locking up several hundred thousand square miles of wild lands. /sarcasm.....

I was going to say the same thing.

"Quick! Let's stop development on all surrounding private property!"

[LikeLight]

Maybe some passenger pigeons will turn up in there as well.

[raisincane]

Thanks for the post. We have a similar bird that passes through out woods, the Pileated Woodpecker. Huge attractive bird.

[cryptical]

I hear they taste just like whooping crane.

They're more tender than Bald Eagle, that's for sure.

[speedy]

Thanks for this great posting. I've seen Pileated Woodpeckers, which I think are pretty similar, but this would be cooler still. Time to start looking for the dodo.

[the_daug]

I seen that bird in northern Louisiana hanging with this bird

[baseballmom]

LOL, that was my first thought - I hope this bird isn't on private property.

With that said, it's a beautiful bird.

[Lekker 1]

LOL!!!

[BluH2o]

Great news ... the ivory billed woodpecker, if it makes it back from near extinction would be a plus for all Americans. The pilated woodpecker ( a cousin of the ivory billed) is an impressive bird ... however, not nearly as striking as the ivory billed. We had a pilated awhile back who found a hollow tree not far from our home ... it sounded like a jackhammer. Apparently they like hollow trees, not only as a food source, but apparently the god awful racket attracts the opposite sex. Sort of like a teenager cruising down main street in a hotrod without a muffler ... the more noise the better.

[BluH2o]

Correction ... make that pileatedwoodpecker.