Woodpecker thought to be extinct discovered in Arkansas

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/11515865.htm



Woodpecker thought to be extinct discovered in Arkansas

BY SETH BORENSTEIN

Knight Ridder Newspapers


WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Not seen for 60 years, the ivory-billed woodpecker - called "the flagship of American extinction" - is alive and soaring through Arkansas' ancient cypress swamps.

In an announcement Thursday termed "a ray of hope" amid gloomy news about Earth's environment, scientists revealed that during the past 14 months veteran naturalists have spotted the largest American woodpecker seven separate times. They even captured it on a blurry video once.

"It was a spiritual experience," said Gene Sparling, an entrepreneur and naturalist who was the first to see the bird. He spotted the male woodpecker on Feb. 11, 2004, while kayaking alone in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Arkansas.
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2. And the extinct "Dodo Bird" is now in the White House Oval Office.......