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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48402)4/29/2005 1:12:43 AM
From: JD  Read Replies (2) of 50167
 
"Extinct" Woodpecker Flies Back from the Beyond

Long believed extinct, the spectacular ivory-billed woodpecker has been spotted in eastern Arkansas' Big Woods region, scientists say. The last confirmed sighting of the bird occurred in 1944.

The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is one of the world's largest woodpecker species, with a wingspan of nearly three feet...

...If some breeding pairs still exist, the scientists remark, conditions favoring population growth are becoming increasingly available to them, thanks to forest restoration efforts by both public and private landowners. "Just to think this bird made it into the 21st century gives me chills," comments team member Tim W. Gallagher of Cornell University. "It's like a funeral shroud has been pulled back, giving us a glimpse of a living bird, rising Lazarus-like from the grave."

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