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Comments regarding "Ivory-Billed Woodpecker".
 Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Message #9
To follow the recent evidence collecting and habitat preservation for the ivory-billed woodpecker, the best website is from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/  

Their website is equipped with ivory-billed woodpecker video, photos, and sounds.  Full coverage from the American Ornithologists' Union Conference 2005 is also included.



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Posted by Lisa (profile) - Chickadee
Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 21:27:38 EST
 
 No New Evidence # 6
Search teams have been exploring a swamp in Arkansas over this past winter and spring, searching for evidence that the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker still exists.

Because no evidence has been found, the Big Woods area of Arkansas can be reopened to the public immediately.



Posted by Lisa (profile) - Chickadee
Friday, May 19, 2006 - 16:15:30 EST
 Ivory-Billed Woodpecker - Proof! # 8
University of Windsor researcher provides "sound" evidence of Ivory-Billed Woodpecker's existence

    WINDSOR, ON, Sept. 26 /CNW/ - University of Windsor Biology professor Dan Mennill and his team of researchers are part of an international group that has just published evidence of the existence of the elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, a magnificent bird thought to have become extinct half a century ago.
    Dr. Mennill, an expert in bioacoustic research, and his team worked cooperatively with Auburn University Professor Geoff Hill on a 16-month project collecting data suggesting the existence of the elusive woodpecker in mature swamp forest along the Choctawhatchee River on the panhandle of Florida.
    Ornithologists believed the world's third largest woodpecker became extinct as a result of habitat destruction. However, the new findings offer compelling evidence that a population of the elusive Ivory-Billed still exists.
    "Our research indicates that the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker still exists in this particular region of the Florida panhandle. Our next challenge is to collect definitive photographic evidence and expand our search to see how wide-spread this population is," said Mennill. "The audio recordings that we have analyzed in my sound analysis laboratory are one important component of our findings, and bioacoustic monitoring will be a critically important tool in locating and documenting woodpeckers in the coming year."
    The University of Windsor/Auburn University team recorded 14 sightings of Ivory-Bills and identified more than 300 sounds matching historical recordings and descriptions of the bird. As well, the group found 20 nesting cavities in the appropriate size range for Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers, and identified trees bearing the distinctive feeding marks of the long-sought woodpecker. Their findings will appear in the new online journal, Avian Conservation and Ecology - Ecologie et Conservation des Oiseaux.
    Mennill's bioacoustic research involved analyzing 11,400 hours of remotely recorded swamp sounds collected from seven specially constructed listening stations. The research team heard sounds that match descriptions of the woodpecker's acoustic signals on 41 occasions and recorded putative double-knocks and calls unique to the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
    Populations of Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers were greatly diminished and isolated by the cutting of swamp forests in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the remaining birds were killed by collectors. The last known woodpeckers disappeared from view in northeast Louisiana in 1944 when the area's virgin forest was logged. A separate population of the bird continued to live in the mountains of Cuba until at least 1988, but was pronounced extinct by the end of the last century.
    University of Windsor President Ross Paul said the exciting discovery underscores the need for international research initiatives and he applauded the unique skills Mennill and his team bring to the project.
    "We are delighted to learn of the evidence Dr. Mennill and his team have gathered over the last year suggesting the highly probable existence of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker," Dr. Paul said. "I am confident Dr. Mennill's cutting-edge bioacoustic technology will be instrumental in helping the research team gather photographic evidence of the woodpecker and will encourage the conservation of wilderness for the preservation of wild animals."
    For more information: www.uwindsor.ca/ivorybill.


For further information: Lori Koutros, Manager, News Services, University of Windsor, (519) 973-7001, Cell: (519) 564-9908


Posted by Lisa (profile) - Chickadee
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 15:11:02 EST