IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER SIGHTED IN SINGER TRACT

See it now with your own eyes -- rediscover it for yourself. The last confirmed sighting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was made in 1944 in Louisiana's Singer Tract. A little more than a century earlier, John James Audubon observed this largest of all North American woodpeckers all over the southeastern United States -- it was abundant as far west as Texas. Audubon's great 1829 image of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker lives on -- exact and prefect re-creations of it can be had at Discovery Editions.com, where every purchase benefits the Trust for Public Land. A reported sighting in 2005 raised the possibility that the Ivory-billed is not extinct. The Trust for Public Land recently conserved 2,900 acres in the Singer Tract and is planting more than two million trees there to restore the Ivory-billed habitat. See it with your own eyes -- rediscover it for yourself.

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• Ivory-billed
• Woodpecker
• John
• James
• Audubon
• TrustForPublicLand
• SingerTract
• extinction
• endangered-species

[Alyzon33]

I believe it is still out there!

[firelione]

Beautiful painting and a great cause!

[CHRISTINEWHO]

I've been a birdwatcher all my life and I hope and pray this bird is back. Nice to hear from Nikki.

[GEORGIAZTATTOBADBOY]

About a year ago, my wife & i were awaiting the schoolbus with our sons, when a very large red headed wood-pecker appeared in the trees across the street, it was 14-16" overall & in my memory had way more white than the ones we see in our pear trees, a few months ago i saw a documentary on the Ivory bill, thinking of it i began to look for him again, i have never seen him again but i did see a black headed very large bird in same area & i have no exp. but i really believe it to be the female.

[AKArainkit]

If your trying to rediscover the Ivory Billed, it's important to remember that this bird has white flank stripes and flight feathers that are visible when wings a folded. If the back is all black, then you have a pilliated woodpecker.

[TheHippoduck]

Unfortunately, the Ivory-Bill has been put into the category of "Almost certainly extinct", as sightings stopped completely after around 2005. It's really sad.

[navywife1977]

Awsome, great post.