Ivory billed woodpecker NOT extinct

sapphira:

We have too many people and not enough wildlife.

ummmm I don't know how 30 birds or so is them getting by fine on their own....Maybe if there were a couple 1000 I would buy in....

I'm glad to hear the bird is alive and has at least a chance. When I was a boy in Kentucky, we used to shoot big Woodpeckers we called "Wood Hens" for a fellow down the road who ate them. He would give us more shells if we fetched one up. I've read that the Ivory Billed is also called "Poule de Bois", meaning "Wood Hen". The old boy who ate these Pileated Woodpeackers, we called Wood Hens said that there used to be some bigger Woodpeckers he hunted when he was a boy. It could be they were the Ivory Billed Woodpecker?

Once I got old enough to realized that some of these critters were getting scarce, I started thinking long and hard about what I laid my sights on.

My Great-Grandpa used to talk about hunting pigeons. He said there were so many that they broke the limbs out of trees, and could wipe out an entire corn field in a few hours. I didn't really believe him until I read about the Passenger Pigeon.

I know that progress and not hunters is the main problem with the low numbers of certain birds or animals, but it's good to see some stuff survive.

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I for one am absolutely thrilled!!! I just saw a piliated woodpecker for the very first time a couple of weeks ago, so the idea of something even bigger and more spectacular makes my heart soar!!

This rediscovery reminds me of a short story I read a while back called Ugly Chickens. It's a little long but worth the read. Good food for thought.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/clas.../waldrop1.html