Thursday, October 27, 2011

Long-gone woodpecker lives again ... on film
[ Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:08:32 GMT ]

An illustration by artist John Schmitt shows the extinct imperial woodpecker.   The Cornell Lab of Ornithology released a color film to the public on its website showing the bird foraging for insects on several giant pines and flying from tree to tree.A snippet of film shot by an amateur ornithologist in 1956 is providing researchers and bird enthusiasts with a rare opportunity to observe the behavior of the imperial woodpecker, a giant resident of Mexico's Sierra Madre now presumed extinct.


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