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US says ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species extinct
Posted on 9/30/21 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 9/30/21 at 3:53 pm
All you baws that claimed to have seen one, it's time to step up for public comment. Last confirmed sighting of the ivory bill was 1944... wow
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The ivory-billed woodpecker was perhaps the best known species the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared extinct. The woodpecker went out stubbornly and with fanfare, making unconfirmed appearances in recent decades that ignited a frenzy of ultimately fruitless searches in the swamps of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.
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The announcement kicks off a 60-day comment period before the species status changes become final.
Posted on 9/30/21 at 4:12 pm to xenon16
Definitely never killed those hook billed suckers
Posted on 9/30/21 at 4:13 pm to xenon16
I never realized how big they were until I watched 'Extinct or Alive'. They were up to 30" tall
Posted on 9/30/21 at 5:15 pm to xenon16
And they claim it’s all due to climate change.
Posted on 9/30/21 at 5:24 pm to xenon16
Been saying this for 60 years.
Posted on 9/30/21 at 7:44 pm to xenon16
I saw one the other day in Pearl River. It was a very stunning bird.
Posted on 9/30/21 at 8:12 pm to xenon16
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The announcement kicks off a 60-day comment period before the species status changes become final.
Oh yeah, because that can't be undone if they find one later...
Posted on 9/30/21 at 8:22 pm to xenon16
A guy I used to work with insists that he saw a pair while he was float fishing the Bogue Chitto near Franklinton. This was about 20 years ago.
Posted on 9/30/21 at 9:23 pm to xenon16
Those mfrs everywhere round here
Posted on 10/1/21 at 8:07 am to xenon16
I don’t know enough about birds to make a definitive statement, but we had one very similar to this that would go at a big loblolly yearly. This was in Hammond circa 1988 or so. We had the tree cut down and it never came back. It had very similar marking, if not identical markings, with a yellowish beak.
Posted on 10/1/21 at 8:15 am to go_tigres
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It had very similar marking, if not identical markings, with a yellowish beak.
Pileated
Ivory-billeds beaks are not yellowish hence the name
There are reward signs all over for them and I am sure the guy that put up the signs has gotten a whole bunch of calls about pileated woodpeckers Can’t imagine some of the folks he would have to talk to
This post was edited on 10/1/21 at 9:10 am
Posted on 10/1/21 at 8:36 am to xenon16
I did not realize Bachman's was extinct. Just makes it even more funny that ivory billed woodpecker guy caused a stir by claiming to see one recently.
Posted on 10/1/21 at 9:08 am to AlxTgr
I thought the same thing when I saw that.
Posted on 10/1/21 at 9:09 am to AlxTgr
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I did not realize Bachman's was extinct. Just makes it even more funny that ivory billed woodpecker guy caused a stir by claiming to see one recently.
Bachmans warbler He saw bachmans sparrow. Common in pineywoods in central and north east Louisiana
Posted on 10/1/21 at 9:16 am to xenon16
these two look a lot alike...many 'sightings' of the ivory billed were likely mistaken
pileated
ivory billed

pileated
ivory billed

Posted on 10/1/21 at 9:19 am to Ron Cheramie
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Bachmans warbler He saw bachmans sparrow. Common in pineywoods in central and north east Louisiana
Oh,

Posted on 10/1/21 at 11:50 am to AlxTgr
The last Ivory Billed Woodpecker I saw (we used to call them wooden-nannys when I was a kid) was in the Bogue Chitto swamp in Washington Parish, near Enon, back in the early to mid 70's. There was a pair nested near the top of a very large, dead, cypress tree in the middle of the swamp. So I know for a fact that it did not die off when they say, though it may have left us now. Who knows?
Posted on 10/1/21 at 1:40 pm to sushidog
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Member since Dec 2010
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It had been eleven years since someone had seen the elusive Sushidog. So, you never know when an ivory-billed woodpecker might pop up.
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