VIDEOS

“Ghost Bird” Trailer. The song is by The Pixies, “Where Is My Mind” (1988), and it is very appropriate. According to producer/director Scott Crocker, “[T]he film is now finished and will be premiering in early 2009.”

Mary Scott: The Prehistory: The sighting that started it all. Mary Scott discusses her White River sighting

Ivory-billed woodpecker information

IMAGES: According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, “Guide J.J. Kuhn becomes a human perch for feisty ‘Sonny Boy,’ an ivory-bill nestling found in the Singer Tract of Louisiana.”

The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis principalis), a relative of the possibly extinct imperial woodpecker (C. imperialis) and member of a fascinating genus of woodpeckers—Campephilus, was supposedly rediscovered in the Big Woods of Arkansas.  The possible rediscovery of this species is extraordinary, since the ivory-billed woodpecker is symbolic for when America was largely a wilderness, and the demise of the ivory-billed woodpecker represents a loss of this wilderness.  As a result, if the ivory-billed woodpecker has survived for this long undetected in certain areas of the United States, then somehow wilderness or the past has survived too, so we have a chance to remedy the past through what we’ve learned through conservation and environmentalism.

There is another race of ivory-billed woodpecker found in Cuba (C. p. bairdii), and like the closely related imperial woodpecker, they are probably extinct.

On the Net:

1. Ghost Bird Documentary
2. Interview with “Ghost Bird” producer/director Scott Crocker
3. Search for ivory-billed woodpecker to begin anew
4. On Flickr: Ivory-billed Woodpeckers & Others in the Campephilus Genus
5. Double Knocks From Arkansas
6. Known sounds of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
7. Audio Evidence of Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
8. Mid-Pleistocene divergence of Cuban and North American ivory-billed woodpeckers

HUMOR & REALITY

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