Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Tim Gallagher Interview, plus a Lament from the Past

Originally posted 3/30/11 - backdated to organize posts by topic.

Tim Gallagher, ornithologist and author of The Grail Bird, relates his famed sighting of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the Big Woods of Arkansas, seven years ago, in a brief portion of this recent podcast by CBC Radio. The interview begins about 6 mins into the podcast.

Go to the interview here.

The illustration at right is from an article entitled The Passing of Birds by Eugene Strong Rolfe which appeared in The Bay State monthly (1900), now in the public domain.  Rolfe's piece contemplates extinct and endangered wildlife at a time of rampant specimen collecting in the USA stating that:  

It is with keen regret that the mind contemplates the total extirpation of types that have heretofore ministered to our necessities or pleasures.  

This interesting albeit sad read can be found starting on page 413 of the monthly (page 430 of the pdf document), available for browsing or free download at Google books. 

Find this edition of the Bay State monthly here

Ivory-billed Woodpeckers - A Podcast Interview with Ron Rohrbaugh from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Originally posted 2/2/11 - backdated to organize posts by topic.

Many people find the history and biology of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker to be nothing short of fascinating.  You'll either learn or be reminded why this is so by listening to this podcast interview with Ron Rohrbaugh, Acting Director of the Conservation Science Program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.   Brought to you by The Wilderness Center, part one of the interview is about 20 minutes long, and is available now at about 26 1/2 minutes into Episode 95.  Part two in Episode 96 will be available on Thursday, February 3, 2011.

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The photo above by Arthur A. Allen is in the public domain according to Wikimedia Commons.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Podcast Discussion

Originally posted 10/15/10 - backdated to organize posts by topic.

Mark Bonta of Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi delivers very interesting commentary on the continuing search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker along with the Delta blues in a new podcast discussion.  Ivorybill comments begin just after 14 minutes into this podcast:

Geography of the Delta Blues and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker 

I was pleased to discover this illustration, new to me, amid an extensive collection of antique bird illustrations and bird photos.  The collection is available in a web album belonging to Avigraphicon at this link:
 

Avigraphicon's Public Gallery

Avigraphicon provides these notes on the book that this plate belongs to:

Captain Thomas Brown's illustrations following Alexander Wilson and Lucien Bonaparte's seminal text, originally published in the three-volume Jameson edition of the American Ornithology. These plates are from the later "Illustrations" volumes published between 1831 and 1835... Brown expanded the works of Wilson and Bonaparte to include 161 additional birds, and enlarged the illustrations of 87 others. 

Link to the full version of these notes here.