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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: WarrenSmith AT PalmettoBuilders.net, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: RE: [Homestead] The Woodpecker in All of Us
  • Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 11:28:34 -0700


Sanders called a local television reporter and the South Atlantic regional
director of the Audubon Society, who happened to have a recording of the
defunct bird. He put them both in a boat and floated into the swamp, to play the call of the ivory-billed woodpecker into the mist.

The ivory-billed woodpecker called back.

Or at least that's what they said.

Fun story, thanks. Btw, the uncommon pileated woodpecker, which lives at Heartwood and other parts of the Ozarks, has a multi-note call while the rare ivory-billed woodpecker has a single-note call. So one would need a keen ear to validate a discovery by that method. One can be sure that Judge Sanders would have had that keen ear.






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