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Title: Ivory-billled Woodpecker 象牙嘴啄木鳥 Post by Carrie Ma on Apr 29th, 2005, 7:10pm Share with members information of Ivory-billled Woodpecker extracted from National Wildlife Federation. Quote" http://a676.g.akamaitech.net/f/676/773/90m/images.m0.net/cm50content/1340/09008101802b3e00/IBW_Sutton.jpg Today's announcement of a confirmed sighting of the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas, a species last seen in the wild in the 1930s and long considered to be extinct, is simply terrific. The discovery is a wondrous glimmer of life that had been feared forever dimmed. We extend our heartiest congratulations to all those involved, including our colleagues at The Nature Conservancy, the Cornell University Ornithology Laboratory, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. We are also proud that the Arkansas Wildlife Federation, our state affiliate, has long been in the forefront of successful efforts to conserve the rare bottomland hardwood forest habitat where the ivory-billed woodpecker has been re-discovered. This area, that includes the Cache and White River National Wildlife Refuges, has one of the nation's largest wintering duck populations and is home to several imperiled species. Hunters and anglers have been indispensable in safeguarding its wildlife values. That effort has now produced the additional benefit of having provided sufficient habitat for the ivory-billed woodpecker to survive. This discovery is also further proof why the ill-conceived $300 million Grand Prairie pump-canal-and-pipeline project that threatens to drain the White River water flow through these National Wildlife Refuges and other adjoining conservation areas is one of the worst ideas ever presented to the American public by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Using the safety net provided to imperiled wildlife by the Endangered Species Act, we can now look forward to the day our children will enjoy seeing the ivory-billed woodpecker recovering in the wild. If you would like to support NWF's efforts to protect the ivory-billed woodpecker and other endangered wildlife throughout America, please make a special donation today. Thank you for making a difference for our children's future. Sincerely Larry Schweiger President & CEO "Unquote |
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Title: Re: Ivory-billled Woodpecker 象牙喙啄木鳥 Post by Webcreeper on Apr 29th, 2005, 8:58pm Report from New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7319), with movie (http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/9999/ivory_bill.mov) clip. 英國《新科學家》雜誌的 報道 (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7319) ，有 錄像 (http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/9999/ivory_bill.mov)。 |
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Title: Re: Ivory-billled Woodpecker 象牙嘴啄木鳥 Post by 深藍 Owen on May 12th, 2005, 11:47am Saving birds from oblivion; CONSERVATION With news of the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, efforts to preserve and restore segments of the once vast bottomland hardwood forests of the Mississippi Valley will become reinvigorated to the benefit of the wildlife and the people who live nearby. I was fortunate to have been a member of one of the first Cornell search teams to have descended on the cypress cathedrals of southeastern Arkansas after the initial ivory-bill sightings. Related Topics Environment One could not help but realize that the bark of the 500-year-old cypress trees in the swamp had once felt the feet of ivory-billed woodpeckers. You could imagine hearing the screeches of flocks of Carolina parakeets darting over the tree tops as they did before disappearing from existence in the early 1900s. And still, amid the buzzy songs of the early-spring migrating Northern Parula warblers there was always the anticipation of possibly hearing one that hadn't been heard since the 1960s -- a Bachman's warbler. Now, as spring migration brings back its flood of returning birds, my mind shifts northward to the remote boreal forest where many of these birds are headed. The boreal forest is the last and largest still-intact forest ecosystem in North America. It supports more than 50 percent of the entire nesting populations of nearly 100 bird species. We lost the Carolina parakeet, the Passenger pigeon, the Bachman's warbler and nearly lost the ivory-billed woodpecker because we didn't think about our collective responsibility for the natural heritage of our country's once vast cypress cathedrals. Over 2.5 million acres of boreal forest are cut every year to fuel America's drive for paper and, believe it or not, most of the virgin forest is being cut for disposable tissue and mail-order catalogs, most of which end up in the trash. While we are celebrate the survival of a species on the razor's edge of extinction, we should also think about how decisions made in the next decade will seal the fate of our last wilderness. A group of organizations and industry in Canada has proposed stewardship of the boreal forest through what they call the Boreal Conservation Framework. Let's urge leaders not to repeat with the boreal forest the mistakes symbolized by the ivory-billed woodpecker and its extinct cousins. Jeffrey Wells is former national bird conservation director for the National Audubon Society. (c) Copyright 2005, The Miami Herald. All Rights Reserved. The Miami Herald |
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Title: Re: Ivory-billled Woodpecker 象牙嘴啄木鳥 Post by pippenho on May 12th, 2005, 1:45pm 希望唔好變成咁啦! :-[ Let's hope these are jokes! :-[http://www.birdforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=20704.jpg http://www.birdforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=20803.jpg http://www.birdforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=20703.jpg A good site of Ivory-billled Woodpecker http://www.ivorybill.org/ |
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Title: Re: Ivory-billled Woodpecker 象牙嘴啄木鳥 Post by Webcreeper on May 12th, 2005, 7:46pm Thanks Pippen! |
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Title: Re: Ivory-billled Woodpecker 象牙嘴啄木鳥 Post by Webcreeper on Apr 10th, 2006, 11:09pm Discover Magazine Web Exclusives Still Extinct? Experts deny ivory-billed woodpecker find. (http://discover.com/web-exclusives/woodpecker/) By Susan Kruglinski April 03, 2006 Over the last year there has been much rejoicing over a snippet of videotape that shows a large bird flapping through cypress trees in Arkansas's Big Woods. It is purported to show an ivory-billed woodpecker, a majestic bird thought to be extinct since the 1940s. But well-known ornithologist David Sibley and colleagues at several universities have now described in a technical paper the reasons they believe that the video provides no solid evidence that an ivory-billed was spotted. |
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