Monday, January 18, 2010
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
The article then goes into several cases where there "may" have been a sighting but there's never enough evidence to support it. So we have all these people seeing these specific, considered extinct, woodpeckers but never any evidence to back them up. A man canoeing says he sights one. After searching for it within a couple days in the same area it is sighted several times. This seems believable. Then there are more sightings but yet again can not be proved. Well if you ask me how can they go out and find the one the guy in the canoe saw but they cant go out and re-find the ones other people saw? I'd like to believe that there is hope in a new population growth but I guess in this case seeing really is believing.
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The Ivory-billed Woodpecker article was very interesting. I thought it was striking that no living ivory-billed woodpecker has been conclusively documented in North America since 1944. Scientist has searched the swamps of Arkansas, the woods of Alabama and Mississippi, and the forests of the Carolinas. Researchers from Cornell described the search to be very difficult to get to the locations unless by helicopter or a swamp buggy. Many of the researchers are trying to get the community involved with being aware of the ivory-billed woodpecker. I did find it interesting that the life spans of large woodpeckers rarely exceed 15 years. What I also thought was interesting was how the Native Americans used the ivory-billed woodpeckers bills as decorations and also were traded throughout North America. The bill was also supposed o be a totem for successful warfare for the Native Americans. It is also amazing how the ivory-billed woodpecker has similarities to a Pileated woodpecker.
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