… The ivory-billed woodpecker, long thought extinct:
"A group of wildlife scientists believe the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct. They say they have made seven firm sightings of the bird in central Arkansas. The landmark find caps a search that began more than 60 years ago, after biologists said North America’s largest woodpecker had become extinct in the United States.
"The large, showy bird is an American legend — it disappeared when the big bottomland forests of North America were logged, and relentless searches have produced only false alarms. Now, in an intensive year-long search in the Cache River and White River national wildlife refuges involving more than 50 experts and field biologists working together as part of the Big Woods Partnership, an ivory-billed male has been captured on video."
For more information on the ivory-bill woodpecker, see this link.
(Nod to a friend who told me of the story. His link to an article on the story had an Evil registration requirement, so I did some poking around to find a non-registration link.)
Not to be a crab about an otherwise interesting wildlife story, but now that this woodpecker has made a comeback, we can expect it to be placed on an endangered species list and have it’s habitat declared off-limits to human beings. Thanks, Woody!
