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[Chief RID]

Now I could get into a reality show about the folks looking for the Ivory Bill. I could get into that a lot more than looking for Bigfoot. It would be great to have a thriving population in Congeree Swamp near Columbia SC.

[TRACY]

Cool picture and awesome bird. We have a lot in my area and enjoy seeing or hearing them throughout the year. I learned in an ornithology class that woody woodpecker was taken from the ivory billed which is similar.? With technology being so mobile and small, I'm waiting to,see some footage that shows the ivory Bill still exists. Thanks for the picture Marc !



Tracy

[Marc St Louis]

Cool picture and awesome bird. We have a lot in my area and enjoy seeing or hearing them throughout the year. I learned in an ornithology class that woody woodpecker was taken from the ivory billed which is similar.? With technology being so mobile and small, I'm waiting to,see some footage that shows the ivory Bill still exists. Thanks for the picture Marc !

Tracy

My wife who took film in university was told it was the Pileated

[Parnell]

I see them frequently even this far south.

[Patches]

The Pileated is a little smaller that the Ivory -billed woodpecker.  The last documented Ivory-billed was seen in Louisiana in the 1950's. Someone thought they seen one in Arkansas about 12 years ago, and a big effort was made to find them, but all they ever found were pileated woodpeckers.   

[Now I could get into a reality show about the folks looking for the Ivory Bill. I could get into that a lot more than looking for Bigfoot. It would be great to have a thriving population in Congeree Swamp near Columbia SC.]

Chief RID, I knew several ornithologists that went down to Arkansas looking for the bird.  They would put on Ghilie suits and stand out in the swamp from dawn to dusk watching and listening for the Ivory-billed.  They said it actually got kinda boring just standing next to a tree all day in camo.  These ornithologists are apparently not bowhunters! 

Neal

[burchett.donald]

  I actually had the pleasure of two pair of the Pileated Woodpeckers come in on me while deer hunting here in SC this October, very very noisy with all the pecking and scuffling up and around the Pines and Oaks ...They were in trouble here after Hurricane Hugo back in 1989 after losing some habitat but have made a good comeback...My niece Emma painted her uncle Don a great picture of one which hangs in my living room...She is talented for an 11yr old!
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