Woodpecker in the mist
KUAR's Ron Breeding reports that the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas's big woods is winding down. After four years, the Cornell Ornithology Lab is giving up its staffed search. None of its people will be in Arkansas this winter. Local agencies will continue to put a few people in the woods for the search this winter, though this may be the last year for those, unless an indisputable photograph of the bird, thought extinct until recent sightings, is obtained.
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They need to be looking about 40 miles south of where they've been looking.
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October 12, 2008 09:32 AM
I am the one laughing now, like everyone laughed at me 15 years ago when we saw one in the Camp Robinson area. I did my research before I called, and they all laughed at me saying there is no way we saw One! My neighbor saw it also. Oh well................
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October 12, 2008 04:49 PM
These woodpeckers have moved to Mexico until after the election and may or may not move back to the Big Woods, depending upon the outcome. We're all welcome to try to find them in the meantime. Good luck!
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October 12, 2008 05:58 PM
Okay, if anyone reads this that has any authority whatsoever to check something like this out, I swear I saw an Ivory Billed Woodpecker in a half dead tree at the edge of the parking lot of the Inn of the Ozarks in Eureka Springs this summer. The tree stands right beside the entrance to the event center parking lot. I would have had a picture, but I have a really crappy camera on my phone.
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October 13, 2008 02:21 PM