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Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Rediscovered in Arkansas

 

 

 

Web Resources

'Science Magazine' Paper Confirming Sighting

IvoryBill.org -- Press Releases, Search and Refuge Preservation Details

 

 

 

View Gallery Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy Arkansas State director Scott Simon, right, and filmmaker

Timothy R. Barksdale search for ivory-billed woodpeckers in the Cache River

National Wildlife Refuge of Arkansas, August 2004.

 

 

 

 

Enlarge George M. Sutton/Cornell Lab of Ornithology

An artist's image of what an ivory-billed woodpecker looks like. So far,

naturalists have captured only a fleeting video image of the rare bird in

Arkansas.

 

 

Morning Edition, April 28, 2005 · 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.

 

" We have solid evidence, there are solid sightings, this bird is here, " says Tim

Barksdale, a wildlife photographer and biologist.

 

For an NPR/National Geographic Radio Expeditions story, NPR science

correspondent Christopher Joyce joined the search last January along Arkansas’

White River, where a kayaker spotted what he believed to be an ivory-billed

woodpecker more than a year ago. Many other similar sightings over the last 60

years have raised false hopes.

 

But this time, Joyce reports that experts associated with the Cornell Laboratory

of Ornithology in New York and The Nature Conservancy were able to confirm the

sighting. They kept the find a secret for more than a year, partly to give

conservation groups and government agencies time to protect the bird’s

habitat.

 

The Nature Conservancy has been buying and protecting land along the White and

Cache Rivers for years, along with the state and the federal Fish and Wildlife

Service. Since the discovery, they've bought more land to protect the bird.

 

 

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