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Submitted on April 8, 2005
Accepted on April 27, 2005
Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) Persists in Continental North America
John W. Fitzpatrick 1*, Martjan Lammertink 2, M. David Luneau Jr.3, Tim W. Gallagher 1, Bobby R. Harrison 4, Gene M. Sparling 5, Kenneth V. Rosenberg 1, Ronald W. Rohrbaugh 1, Elliott C. H. Swarthout 1, Peter H. Wrege 1, Sara Barker Swarthout 1, Marc S. Dantzker 1, Russell A. Charif 1, Timothy R. Barksdale 6, J. V. Remsen Jr.7, Scott D. Simon 8, Douglas Zollner 8
1 Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. 2 Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. ; Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Mauritskade 61, 1092 AD Amsterdam, Netherlands. 3 Department of Engineering Technology and Department of Information Technology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204, USA. 4 Department of Communications, Oakwood College, Huntsville, AL 35896, USA. 5 107 Stillmeadow Lane, Hot Springs, AR 71913, USA. 6 Birdman Productions, Post Office Box 1124, 65 Mountain View Drive, Choteau, MT 59422, USA. 7 Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. 8 The Nature Conservancy, Arkansas Chapter, 601 North University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
John W. Fitzpatrick , E-mail: jwf7{at}cornell.edu
The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), longsuspected to be extinct, has been rediscovered in the "Big Woods"region of eastern Arkansas. Visual encounters during 2004 and2005, and analysis of a video clip from April 2004, confirmthe existence of at least one male. Acoustic signatures consistentwith Campephilus display-drums also have been heard from theregion. Extensive efforts to locate birds away from the primarysite remain unsuccessful, but potential habitat for a thinlydistributed source population is vast (over 220,000 ha).
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