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To: Rockingham

I still live in hope that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker is just hiding out...


74 posted on 06/15/2024 8:07:55 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Me too. Or maybe it and other lost American species will be resurrected through surviving DNA samples.


85 posted on 06/15/2024 8:23:22 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Jamestown1630

I know someone that lives in the Big Woods area in Arkansas and he works in the woods/ swamp.

That area has probably the highest density of woodpeckers anywhere.

He said he hears Woodpeckers all day long, every day. It’s just background noise, even at his house. To me, that lends itself to potential that an Ivory Billed could still be around.


93 posted on 06/15/2024 8:27:52 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: Jamestown1630

Yes. Finding Ivory Billed Woodpeckers still alive would be tremendous. I hold out hope that pairs are out there somewhere in the depths of its native range.’

Did you see the video that came out ten years ago or so the purported to show one flying between two trees? It was that or a red-headed one. The difficulty was getting a good view of the patterning on the wings as that was about all that could be distinguished about it.

Long ago, a woodpecker with red feathers on its head flew right by me at Fort Stewart, Goergia. While Fort Stewart is located in the Ivory Bill’s native range—and would make a great sanctuary for them, I think—it was almost certainly a red-headed woodpecker. It seemed very large when it flew by. But I cannot say I noticed an ivory bill.

There is also a stretch of forest in Cuba where some subspecies of the Ivory Bill may live. Last I read, no living specimens were heard nor found. But hope springs eternal.

…But let’s say you or I found one or two Ivory Bills, no doubt about it, in the wild somewhere in the southern US. Would you tell anyone? Would it occur to you that maybe telling folks would draw unwanted attention to them and then they really risk becoming extinct? Or would you let them be in whatever hidden corner of their range they are in to live and expand their tiny population until they grew in numbers that could no longer be hidden? I’d be inclined to stay mum after taking a few photos to reassure myself of what I’d seen.


102 posted on 06/15/2024 8:34:07 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Jamestown1630

I think the Ivory Billed woodpecker was spotted last year.... IIRC somewhere in Oregone or Washington.


132 posted on 06/15/2024 11:07:07 PM PDT by cherry
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