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	Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A very large woodpecker was videotaped on April 25, 2004; its size, wing pattern at rest and in flight, and white plumage on its back between the wings were cited as evidence that the woodpecker sighted was an Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
		The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was listed as an endangered species on March 11, 1967, though the only evidence of its existence at the time was a possible recording of its call made in East Texas.
		The Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is a very large and extremely rare or extinct member of the woodpecker family, Picidae.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivory-billed_Woodpecker (2289 words)

	The Ivory-billed Woodpecker
		The Ivory-billed Woodpecker, then, having discovered an insect or larva in a chink of the bark, is enabled by suddenly protruding its tongue, covered with thick mucus, and having a strong slender sharp point furnished with small reversed prickles, to seize it and draw it into the mouth.
		I observed that in two instances, when the Woodpeckers saw me thus at the foot of the tree in which they were digging their nest, they abandoned it for ever.
		Hence it appears that the stomach of this Woodpecker is not adapted for pounding very hard substances, and that the seeds of berries and pulpy fruits pass undigested through its intestinal canal.
	www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F26_G1b.html (3451 words)

	Digimorph - Campephilus principalis (Ivory-billed Woodpecker)
		The status of the ivory-billed woodpecker in the United States has been uncertain since 1942 when the last photographs were taken of this species.
		Parker, W. On the morphology of the skull in the woodpeckers (Picidae) and wrynecks (Yungidae).
		Unfortunately the preparation required that most of the skeleton be removed and replaced with medal wires and pins; however, the skull, wings, and feet remain in the specimen (Fig.
	digimorph.org /specimens/Campephilus_principalis/CU51246 (424 words)

	AllRefer.com - ivory-billed woodpecker (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		Ivory-billed woodpeckers are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Piciformes, family Picidae.
		A true woodpecker, it has a strong and straight chisellike bill and a long, mobile, hard-tipped, sticky tongue.
		It is thought that a few ivory-bills are surviving today in the forests of the Gulf Coast of North America and in Cuba.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/ivorybil.html (312 words)

	Discovery Channel :: News :: Extremely Rare Woodpecker Rediscovered
		April 28, 2005— One of the world's largest, most beautiful and most legendary woodpeckers may not be extinct after all, say ornithologists studying startling new video evidence from Arkansas of the long-lost ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas.
		The few surviving ivory-billed woodpeckers may have adapted to the threats on their species by making themselves extraordinarily hard to find.
		The graceful ivory-billed woodpecker used to be common throughout once heavily wooded southeastern North America.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/briefs/20050425/woodpecker.html (506 words)

	Ivory-billed woodpecker - Campephilus principalis: More Information - ARKive
		The ivory-billed woodpecker is the fourth or fifth largest woodpecker in the world (5).
		The ivory-billed woodpecker feeds on wood-boring invertebrates, which colonise trees that have recently died (3).
		It is thought that pairs of ivory-billed woodpeckers mate for life, occupying large territories (5).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/birds/Campephilus_principalis/more_info.html (605 words)

	Ivory-billed Woodpecker
		The rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker is being doubted by a group of scientists, Dr Richard Prum et al.
		One of the world's largest woodpeckers, this striking black-and-white species was formerly distributed throughout the south-eastern USA, from Illinois, Kentucky and North Carolina south to the Gulf of Mexico and Cuba.
		It has been estimated that each pair of woodpeckers requires about 16 square kilometres of prime, undisturbed forest, and at such a low density throughout most of its range the species was never very common.
	www.inventas.co.nz /50rarestbirds/ivory.htm (1922 words)

	Ivory-billed Woodpecker
		During the ongoing search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas, a white Pileated Woodpecker was discovered in the White River National Wildlife Refuge.
		Brinkey, AR, January 2006 —“The Call of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Celebration” is being held at the Brinkley Convention Center February 23, 24, and 25.
		Observed during February 7-13, 2006, this striking individual is known as a leucistic bird.
	www.fws.gov /ivorybill (609 words)

	IVORY BILLED WOODPECKER
		The Ivory-billed woodpecker is the largest of the North American woodpeckers and its decline is directly linked to destruction of its required habitat.
		This male ivory-billed woodpecker is one of two specimens now on display in the lobby of the New York State Museum.
		The ivory-billed woodpeckers were once widely distributed in the swampy, old growth, bottomland hardwoods of southeastern US and Cuba.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /dated/woodpecker.html (184 words)

	The Birds of North America Online: Ivory-billed Woodpecker
		In truth, throughout its range, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was associated with extensive old-growth forests, the solitude of wilderness, and the availability of immense beetle larvae that were its principal food.
		The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was once found in virgin forests throughout much of the southeastern United States and up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at least as far north as St. Louis.
		Colonial naturalists Catesby (1731), Wilson (1811), Vieillot (1807), and Audubon (1842) all expounded on this “largest” of all woodpeckers.
	bna.birds.cornell.edu /BNA/demo/account/Ivory-billed_Woodpecker (564 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Rare woodpecker found in Arkansas
		The ivory-billed woodpecker is known as an ornithologist's "Holy Grail," and a number of books have been written on the searches for it in Southern states.
		John Dumbacher, the curator for birds and mammals at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, said the ivory-billed woodpecker was thought to have met the same fate as other birds like the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, both of which are extinct.
		The news of the woodpecker sighting in the Mississippi River lowlands was confirmed yesterday by Thomas Bruce, Cornell's vice president for communications and media relations.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002255804_woodpecker28.html (384 words)

	TimesDispatch.com Sightings of rare bird discounted
		The big news in the feathered world is the discovery in Arkansas of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a majestic bird considered extinct for decades.
		The pileated woodpecker is roughly the size of a crow.
		The bill of the pileated woodpecker is darker, but in bad light it can appear white-ish.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031782444982 (509 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Ivory-billed woodpecker: Ornithology's holy grail
		Despite occasional unconfirmed sightings, scientists had thought the ivory-billed woodpecker was extinct in the United States after 1944, and in Cuba after 1948.
		Though it is possible that they stumbled upon the last remaining individual ivory-billed woodpecker, Gallagher said he believes that the birds remain widespread in very low numbers.
		Scientists remained skeptical because of the pileated woodpecker, a bit smaller than the ivory-billed, but similar in color and habitat.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/10.13/01-woodpecker.html (845 words)

	Ultrarare Woodpecker Spurs Ultimate Birding Trip
		The hunt is on for the ivory-billed woodpecker, a treasured bird that appears to have disappeared from the old-growth forests of the southeastern United States some 50 years ago.
		Van Remson, an LSU ornithologist who is coordinating the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker in Louisiana, said 50 highly qualified applicants from around the world applied to participate in the hunt.
		Among birders, the beautiful and majestic black and white woodpecker with a three-inch-long ivory bill holds the status of the Holy Grail.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/01/0115_020115woodpecker.html (748 words)

	NPR : Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Radio Expeditions
		Listen to the only known recording of ivory-billed woodpeckers, captured in 1935 in a forested area of Louisiana known as Singer Tract.
		The ivory-bill was North America's largest woodpecker, with a wingspan the length of a man's arm.
		The woodpecker lived in low-lying hardwood forests, and apparently disappeared about 50 years ago when the last of those forests was cut.
	www.npr.org /programs/re/archivesdate/2002/march (871 words)

	NEW HOPE FOR THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
		News that the magnificent ivory-billed woodpecker, long believed to be extinct, has been rediscovered the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas more than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the species in the United States has produced waves of excitement in the world of conservation and beyond.
		WASHINGTON n Responding to the dramatic rediscovery of the Ivory-billed woodpecker at the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas, Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns Thursday, April 28, announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar partnership effort to aid the rare bird's survival.
		It has a larger white bill, a black chin, a large white square on its lower back region when perched, a white trailing edge to the wing when it flew, it didn’t undulate in flight like the Pileated, and its call sounds like the biggest doggone White-breasted Nuthatch in the world.
	ivorybilled.i3log.com (3456 words)

	ivory
		The Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus), is a similar, big, crow-sized woodpecker that you might see occasionally all through the eastern U.S....Though similar in appearance, the Pileated has proved far more adaptable to man than did the Ivory-Bill.
		I found a report on the last days of the Cuban Ivory Bill and have posted it HERE if you are interested...
		By 1939 it was estimated that there were only about 24 Ivory bills left in "five areas in Louisiana, Florida, and possibly South Carolina".
	users.aristotle.net /~swarmack/ivory.html (789 words)

	Seeking the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
		The past few year's flurry of excitement over reports of ivory-billed woodpeckers in the Pearl River area of Louisiana has caused a lot of people to conclude that the species is not yet extinct.
		In the case of the ivory-billed woodpecker, I think the evidence indisputably points to the alternate explanation.
		The evidence for the survival of the ivory-billed woodpecker consists almost entirely of about 50 reports spread over the past 50 years.
	www.birdwatchersdigest.com /site/conservation/ivory_billed_woodpecker.aspx (1985 words)

	Ivory-billed Woodpecker - history
		The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was/is North America's largest woodpecker, a striking bird that inhabited southern bottomland forests, favoring old growth.
		Tanner, who documented the Ivory-bills in 1943, said they seem to favor areas where Pileated Woodpeckers were especially common.
		Many have doubted that Pileated Woodpeckers could be the source-- and no doubt detailed knowledge of the Pileated could help rule them out.
	www.geocities.com /tertial/ibwo2.html (453 words)

	Woodpecker - Woodpecker Craft
		The Ivory-billed Woodpecker confines its rambles to a comparatively very small But, let us return to the biography of the famed Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
		The smallest and most common American woodpecker, the Downy Woodpecker is The Downy Woodpecker is a frequent member of mixed species flocks in winter.
		The Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) is a small, black and white bird with a very short bill.
	frind.siteslinks.com /sil/frind-woodpecker.htm (212 words)

	About "Elusive Ivory" - Ivory-billed Woodpecker Original Painting
		News of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker rediscovery was seen on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and every major newspaper in the world.
		I thought to myself "What is an Ivory-billed Woodpecker?" and tried not to act too dense about the subject.
		Comments on Ivory-billed Woodpecker painting from the general public
	www.ivory-bill-woodpecker.com /ivory-bill-art.htm (1322 words)

	Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in North Carolina
		The largest woodpecker in North America, Ivory-bills are slightly larger than the American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos).
		Distinguishing characteristics of the Ivory-bill include its size, the all black crest of the female, and large patches of white seen as a shield of white on the lower back of perched birds and as a trailing edge of white on the wings of a bird in flight.
		The Ivory-bill is black-faced with a black throat and black extending around the base of the bill.
	nc-es.fws.gov /birds/ivorybill.html (239 words)

	BBC NEWS Science/Nature 'Extinct' woodpecker found alive
		The ivory-billed woodpecker, a spectacular bird long thought to be extinct, has been found alive in North America, Science magazine reports.
		Among the world's largest woodpeckers, the ivory-bill is one of six North American bird species suspected or known to have gone extinct since 1880.
		The "stunning" red, white and black woodpecker was formerly distributed across the south-eastern United States and Cuba.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4493825.stm (589 words)

	Audubon
		The recent confirmed sighting of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker on the Cache River in Arkansas is a tribute to the determination of an extended team of people who make up the Big Woods Coalition, led by the Nature Conservancy and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
		In form, color, and size, the locally common Pileated Woodpecker appears superficially similar to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
		Audubon recognizes that we need long-term planning and multi-state regional cooperation if we are to protect Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, other species, and the habitats upon which they depend along the course of the Mississippi River.
	www.audubon.org /bird/ivory/challenges.php (316 words)

	Fred Foldvary: The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
		Mississippi River Trust, stated, "The discovery of the ivory billed woodpecker is a celebration of what can occur when good scientific research is combined with the cooperative efforts of public and private landowners.
		So those who rejoice in the confirmed discovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker should get to work to improve the Endangered Species Act and help promote private as well as governmental wildlife refuges so that the habitats of all endangered wildlife will be better preserved.
		Its smaller biological cousin, the pileated woodpecker, has survived human civilization and is plentiful in the South.
	www.progress.org /2005/fold402.htm (835 words)

	The New York Times > Science > In the Swamp, an 'Extinct' Woodpecker Lives
		The woodpecker inspired one of the first conservation efforts in the nation's history, but its seeming failure turned the ivory bill into a symbol of loss.
		With its 30-inch wingspan and formidable bill, its sharp black and white coloring, and the male's carmine crest, the ivory bill was the largest of American woodpeckers, described by John James Audubon as "this great chieftain of the woodpecker tribe."
		Their announcement on Thursday brought rejoicing among birdwatchers, for whom the ivory bill has long been a holy grail - a creature that has been called the Lord God bird, apparently because that is what people exclaimed when they saw it.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/04/29/science/29bird.html?ex=1272427200&en=38b07d83bd6acbb4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1172 words)

	David Allen Sibley - David Allen Sibley drawing illustration portrait David Sibley, art by Sibley
		Long believed to be extinct, the ivory-billed woodpecker — has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas.
		Catching sight of the ivory-billed woodpecker is the ultimate quest for birders everywhere.
		For more than 60 years, ivory-billed woodpeckers were thought to be extinct.
	nature.org /magazine/fall2002/woodpecker (202 words)

	Ivory-billed Woodpecker found in Arkansas
		The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is one of six North American bird species known or suspected to have gone extinct since 1880.
		No living Ivory-billed Woodpecker had been conclusively documented in continental North America since an unpaired female was seen in cut-over forest remnants in 1944.
		The Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis, one of the largest and most spectacular of the world’s woodpeckers, has been rediscovered in North America.
	www.birdlife.org /news/news/2005/04/ivory-billed_full_story.html (518 words)

	CBC News: Scientists play audio recordings of ivory-billed woodpecker
		The ornithologists played their recordings of the ivory-bill woodpecker and then played recordings of related species of woodpeckers in South and Central America for comparison.
		Since the woodpecker's rediscovery, U.S. agencies have promised millions to help preserve the bird's eastern Arkansas habitat in and around the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge.
		One recording featured a series of distinctive nasally sounds that ivory -bills make and another captured an exchange of double-rap sounds, which may indicate two ivory -bills communicating with each other.
	www.cbc.ca /story/science/national/2005/08/25/ivory-billed_woodpecker20050825.html (333 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Ivory-billed woodpecker flies back from the dead
		“This is not any old bird - it’s America’s largest woodpecker and it’s legendary,” says John Fitzpatrick of Cornell University, and head of a year-long expedition to corroborate initial sightings of the species in February 2004.
		His team’s paper in Science describes five visible features which distinguish it from the pileated woodpecker, the only other species it could possibly have been.
		“A large black and white woodpecker flew off a tree,” says Luneau.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7319 (360 words)

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