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Thread ID: 18009 | Posts: 12 | Started: 2005-04-28
2005-04-28 15:45 | User Profile
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis, one of the largest and most spectacular of the worldââ¬â¢s woodpeckers, has been rediscovered in North America. The news, the subject of an announcement by the journal Science later today, has stunned ornithologists world-wide, since the species was assessed by the IUCN as Extinct in 1996.
Recent sightings in the Mississippi River basin, involved at least one bird, a male. More may be present, since potential habitat for a thinly distributed source population is vast.
The species was once uncommon but widespread across lowland primary forest of the southeastern United States. 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.
[url]http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2005/04/ivory-billed.html[/url]
[url]http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011207.me.ivorybilledwoodpecker.ram[/url]
2005-04-28 17:06 | User Profile
Good news. It sickens me how much of the natural world has been destroyed in propping up a doomed system. [IMG]http://www.galleryone.com/images/brenders/brenders_-_ivory_billed_woodpecker.jpg[/IMG]
2005-04-28 17:12 | User Profile
Big mistake telling people where to find it, you will now have collectors, thophy hunter, and nuts looking for it.
They should have waited at least five years before coming out with the news.
2005-04-29 03:30 | User Profile
I'm willing to bet that like Bald Eagles & Spotted Owls, they would be absolutly delicious if slow cooked in a crock pot, smothered with onions & mushroom soup! :whstl:
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2005-04-29 04:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Blond Knight]I'm willing to bet that like Bald Eagles & Spotted Owls, they would be absolutly delicious if slow cooked in a crock pot, smothered with onions & mushroom soup! :whstl:
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Like I said " and you would have nuts looking for it".
Sometimes I just hate myself when I am right, oh well.
2005-04-30 00:07 | User Profile
Good News. Let us hope the European Folk can survive too.
2005-04-30 00:16 | User Profile
The local bolshevik rag is calling it the "Lord God bird".
2005-04-30 01:44 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Good News. Let us hope the European Folk can survive too.[/QUOTE] Without European folk, chances are good that these birds will wind up on a dinner plate some day: [url]http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=633666[/url]
2005-04-30 06:19 | User Profile
It's supposed to be very big for a woodpecker. I heard it has a 3-foot wingspan.
2005-04-30 13:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]It's supposed to be very big for a woodpecker. I heard it has a 3-foot wingspan.[/QUOTE]
Yes it does, and I hate for it to come after me.
2005-04-30 16:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Good News. Let us hope the European Folk can survive too.[/QUOTE]
That would be a "Hate" crime. :D
If there were any other creature thought extinct that I might bring back to life, I believe it would be a brace of Allasauri...one to be unleashed at RNC headquarters; t'other at the Knesset (as if there were still any difference)...
[img]http://www.dinosaurios.net/dinomito/dinomito_img/dmcin_gwangi002.jpg[/img]
2005-05-13 22:20 | User Profile
I think this is a Pileated Woodpecker. Great picture.