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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> 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.