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Description: Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas.
Photo credit: Clark Jones/Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
Description: Big Woods Conservation Partnership project volunteer, Jim Fitzpatrick with his dog, Drake, set off to
search for ivory-billed woodpeckers in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas. February
2005.
Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |
Description: Wearing camouflage, Bobby Harrison, Oakwood College associate professor, searches for ivory-billed
woodpeckers in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas. March 2005.
Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |
Description: Oakwood College Associate Professor Bobby Harrison hangs a decoy that he carved of a female ivorybilled
woodpecker (holding a grub in her beak) on a tree in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in
Arkansas. The decoys are used as part of the Big Woods Conservation Partnership search effort. March
2005.
Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |
Description: Bobby Harrison, Oakwood College associate professor, holds mechanical models of pileated (left) and
ivory-billed woodpeckers that the team used to help verify possible video recordings of the ivory-billed
woodpecker in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. March 2005. Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |
Description: Colorized digital image of ivory-billed woodpecker at nest.
Credit: George M. Sutton/Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
Description: Painting of ivory-billed woodpecker on tree.
Credit: George M. Sutton/Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
Description: Ivory-billed woodpecker, Singer Tract, Lousiana, 1935.
Photo credit: Courtesy of David Allen |
Description: Dutch scientist Martjan Lammertink searches for ivory-billed woodpeckers from a blind in the Cache
River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas. March 2005.
Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |
Description: University of Arkansas professor David Luneau searches for ivory-billed woodpeckers from his canoe in
the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas. March 2005.
Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |
Description: Gene Sparling, a kayaker who first saw the ivory-billed woodpecker, compares a hole found in a dead
tree in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas to a chart created by Dutch scientist
Martjan Lammertink of holes created by pileated woodpeckers (left side of chart) and ivory-billed
woodpeckers. March 2005.
Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |
Description: Scott Simon (right), The Nature Conservancy's Arkansas State Director, and naturalist filmmaker
Timothy R. Barksdale search for ivory-billed woodpeckers in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge,
Arkansas. August 2004.
Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |
Description: Gene Sparling, a kayaker who first saw the ivory-billed woodpecker, continues to search for the bird in
the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas. August 2004.
Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |
Description: A tree with bark and wood stripped from it is possible evidence of the presence of the ivory-billed
woodpecker in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas. February 2005.
Photo credit: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservancy |