Ivory Bill Rediscovered in Arkansas

This was not any story. This was the main story of the morning for me. The Ivory bill Wood Pecker was found. In Arkansas. A week or so later, 60 Minutes presents a story on the bird. The Lord God Bird!

"Morning Edition, April 28, 2005 · A group of wildlife scientists believe the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct. They say they have made seven firm sightings of the bird in central Arkansas. The landmark find caps a search that began more than 60 years ago, after biologists said North America’s largest woodpecker had become extinct in the United States."

Source: NPR

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As far as CBS is concerned, here's how Ed Bradley reports the story.

"The ivory-billed woodpecker’s resurrection is an amazing story — not just about the bird but the people who are obsessed with it. It’s also a story involving extraordinary luck, secrecy, millions of dollars and months of searching a forest in eastern Arkansas looking for a flying needle in a haystack.

All that’s left of the “Big Woods” — a forest that once covered 24 million acres and stretched from Memphis, Tenn., to Little Rock — is some 500,000 acres in Arkansas. The spectacular swamps and hardwood forests of the South were once home to the ivory-billed woodpecker."


Source: CBs
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