Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) Persists in Continental North America

The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), long suspected to be extinct, has been rediscovered in the Big Woods region of eastern Arkansas. Visual encounters during 2004 and 2005, and analysis of a video clip from April 2004, confirm the existence of at least one male. Acoustic signature...

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Published inScience (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 308; no. 5727; pp. 1460 - 1462
Main Authors Fitzpatrick, John W, Lammertink, Martjan, Luneau, M. David, Gallagher, Tim W, Harrison, Bobby R, Sparling, Gene M, Rosenberg, Kenneth V, Rohrbaugh, Ronald W, Swarthout, Elliott C. H, Wrege, Peter H, Swarthout, Sara Barker, Dantzker, Marc S, Charif, Russell A, Barksdale, Timothy R, Remsen, J. V, Simon, Scott D, Zollner, Douglas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Association for the Advancement of Science 03.06.2005
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Subjects
Aerial locomotion
Animal populations
Animal wings
Animals
Arkansas
Aves
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Biological Evolution
Birds
Birds of prey
Conservation of Natural Resources
Ecology
Environmental aspects
Forest habitats
Forest regeneration
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Hardwood forests
Male
Ornithology
Tree trunks
Trees
Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution
Video Technology
Videotape Recorders
Woodpeckers
United States
North America
Arkansas
America
Persistence
Vertebrata
Wing
Geographic distribution
First record
Plumage
Aves
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Summary:The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), long suspected to be extinct, has been rediscovered in the Big Woods region of eastern Arkansas. Visual encounters during 2004 and 2005, and analysis of a video clip from April 2004, confirm the existence of at least one male. Acoustic signatures consistent with Campephilus display drums also have been heard from the region. Extensive efforts to find birds away from the primary encounter site remain unsuccessful, but potential habitat for a thinly distributed source population is vast (over 220,000 hectares).
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ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1114103