Post by Tara on Apr 29, 2005 7:09:11 GMT -5
Ivory-billed woodpecker not extinct
Scientists report sightings of bird in Arkansas, release video
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An ivory-billed woodpecker -- widely believed to be extinct and whose last confirmed sighting was 60 years ago -- is alive in Arkansas, according to a research paper released Thursday.[/b]
Imagine that?
Scientists report sightings of bird in Arkansas, release video
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An ivory-billed woodpecker -- widely believed to be extinct and whose last confirmed sighting was 60 years ago -- is alive in Arkansas, according to a research paper released Thursday.[/b]
Imagine that?
The last confirmed U.S. sighting of the the bird was in a Louisiana hardwood forest in the 1940s. The bird is second in size to the endangered imperial woodpecker of Mexico, once the largest woodpecker on Earth.
Ivory-billed woodpeckers have a nearly 3-foot wingspan and are almost 20 inches long -- about the size of an American black crow.
Ivory-billed woodpeckers have a nearly 3-foot wingspan and are almost 20 inches long -- about the size of an American black crow.
