Thursday, April 28, 2005
Welcome Back, Brother
What a great day to be a Bird!Bird is highly pleased to welcome the Ivory Billed Woodpecker back from extinction. Last seen in northeast Louisiana in 1944 there are now several confirmed sightings in Arkansas and a video tape has provided the conclusive evidence of this bird's return to realm of the living. Researchers at Cornell analyzed the tape and determined that this truly was an Ivory Bill.
The Ivory now reclaims his place as the largest American woodpecker, with a wingspan of three feet. It's beak was prized by American Indians as magical and then it was hunted into what was wrongly regarded as extinction for its feathers, which adorned many a lady's hat after the turn of the last century. The Nature Conservancy reported 15 sightings of the bird in 7,000 hours of search time concentrating on a 16-square-mile area.
Bird, who is currently in northern Manitoba searching for Sasquatch, will be fitting some time in his schedule to fly out to Arkansas to interview an Ivory Bill.
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker certainly puts the "Rare" in the Rare Bird Review!
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