An Ivory-billed Woodpecker Sighting

By Mike • May 8, 2007 • 2 comments

by a New Yorker?!? Rich Guthrie of Albany describes his trip to the bottomland and glimpse of what may have been the Lord God Bird.

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2 Responses to “An Ivory-billed Woodpecker Sighting”

Veery May 9th, 2007 at 9:09 am
I hope he is for real…I want them to be un-extinct more than I want to see them for myself!
mon@rch May 9th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Must be visiting my house every day! My best kept secret! http://flickr.com/photos/monarch/83120932/

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