Thursday, October 27, 2011

IMPERIAL WOODPECKER (Courtesy of Chad Arment)

Cornell has released online a video that is the only known photographic record of the presumed extinct Imperial woodpecker:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=2314

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous1:12 PM

    Incidentally, we have a stuffed specimen of one of these in a local museum here in Indiana: i wrote about it in an earlier blog at FOZ. Nobody seems to know how it came to be here, they are supposed to be natives of Mexico.

    Best Wishes, Dale D.

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