The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), long suspected to be extinct, has been rediscovered in the "Big Woods" region of eastern Arkansas. Visual encounters during 2004 and 2005, and analysis of a video clip from April 2004, confirm the existence of at least one male. Acoustic signatures consistent with Campephilus display-drums also have been heard from the region. Extensive efforts to locate birds away from the primary site remain unsuccessful, but potential habitat for a thinly distributed source population is vast (over 220,000 ha).
http://www.nature.org/
There use to be a vacant field close to where I live. The field still exists, but it has 5 vinyl houses on it now. The gary oaks still remain, as they are protected here.
When it was just a gary oak forest, a red piliated woodpecker would visit. You could hear his knock at the door for miles. What a spectular bird visually, prehistoric, and the air of a king.
After he would fly off to another forest, I would go to the tree he was dining at, and collect some of the shavings of his drill I don't see or hear him anymore, he has moved on to another forest. But it was a thrill to watch him. :wink:
http://www.nature.org/
There use to be a vacant field close to where I live. The field still exists, but it has 5 vinyl houses on it now. The gary oaks still remain, as they are protected here.
When it was just a gary oak forest, a red piliated woodpecker would visit. You could hear his knock at the door for miles. What a spectular bird visually, prehistoric, and the air of a king.
After he would fly off to another forest, I would go to the tree he was dining at, and collect some of the shavings of his drill I don't see or hear him anymore, he has moved on to another forest. But it was a thrill to watch him. :wink:
