[Birdtalk] IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER - NEW REPORT!!!

[James D. McIntyre]

EXCITING NEWS!

 

Here is a new report on Ivory-billed Woodpeckers from Mary Scott, the
dedicated searcher who reported seeing this species in the White River NWR
in Arkansas in 2003 - a year before and 60 miles south of the reported
sightings by Gene Sparling and the Cornell Ornithology Lab team in the Bayou
de View area of the Cache River NWR:

 

A major university has been documenting a colony of as many as 9 pairs of
ivorybills on a river system that was never explored by James Tanner, and
which did not make Bob Russell's Top Ten!  The river flows to the Gulf of
Mexico.  It has provided a perfect "under the radar" home for ivorybills. It
is expected that there will be an announcement about this exhilarating find
at the AOU meeting next month.  As there is land acquisition in progress,
there has been a real effort to keep this location quiet, and I will respect
this decision by the discoverers for now. (This project has been ongoing for
more than a year.) But WOW! As I've said for all these years ~ let's just
get out there and look, and we'll find the birds! More to come. . .

 

For all kinds of ivorybill reporting, check out Ivory-bills LiVE!!

http://ivorybills.blogspot.com

Keep on Searching!

 

More details may be found on Mary Scott's website:

http://www.birdingamerica.com/Ivorybill/ivorybilledwoodpecker.htm

and the Cornell Lab website:

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/rediscovery/

 

Jim McIntyre

 

 

 

 

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