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Fast Facts --
In the early 1900s, conservationists
warned of the impending extinction of
the Ivory-billed woodpecker.
From 1937 to 1939, James Tanner, a
young doctoral student at Cornell
University, researched the Ivory-billed
woodpeckers of the Singer Tract.
Prior to the 2004 discovery
of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker at Cache
River National Wildlife Refuge in
Arkansas, this was the last
authenticated sighting of the bird in the
United States.
Much of the information
comes from “Hope Is The
Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of
Vanished Birds” by Christopher
Cokinos. |