05/22/2023
I have seen these in Upper Black Eddy, Pa.! Or some thing that greatly resembles this. Keep an eye birdwatchers!
Published: May. 21, 2023, 5:51 p.m.
FILE - An Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
A specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)
By Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.com
Researchers in Pennsylvania have reportedly just spotted a bird that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was considering declaring extinct because its last “unchallenged” sighting came all the way back in 1944, according to reports.
In an incredible finding, researchers with the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, claim that they have captured images of the ivory-billed woodpecker — called an “iconic species” — on motion-activated trail cameras that they placed in Louisiana. The group reportedly recorded the birds in “bottomland hardwood forests.”
They also reportedly used drones in 2019 to scan the treetops for the birds. Their techniques reportedly returned “numerous images” of the woodpeckers.
