"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4622633

Stupendous and wholly unexpected news!

However, there is ample reason to be nervous about the fact that it made the
news. Other bird species on the brink of extinction have been pushed over
the edge in part by people eager to see the last remnants, collect one last
specimen......or even just shoot it.

For anyone who's interested, Christopher Cokinos did an excellent job of
relating the story of the demise of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (as well as
the Carolina Parakeet, the Passenger Pigeon, the Great Auk, and a couple of
others) in his 2000 book, "Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal
Chronicle of Vanished Birds."

Wolfgang