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

• Published in: Science (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
• Language: English
• 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

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...