Posted on May 22, 2023
How a National Aviary researcher's 5-year slog proved ivory-billed woodpeckers aren't extinct
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Clad in thigh-high snake protector chaps and muddy boots, the National Aviary’s Steven Latta has mucked around in a Louisiana river swamp from October to April for the last five years.
Latta and other researchers tramp through water, mud and dry ground for two hours most days to reach the “hot zone,” an unnamed bottomland that they believe is the stomping ground of — depending on who you ask — the elusive or extinct ivory-billed woodpecker.
Clad in thigh-high snake protector chaps and muddy boots, the National Aviary’s Steven Latta has mucked around in a Louisiana river swamp from October to April for the last five years.
Latta and other researchers tramp through water, mud and dry ground for two hours most days to reach the “hot zone,” an unnamed bottomland that they believe is the stomping ground of — depending on who you ask — the elusive or extinct ivory-billed woodpecker.
How a National Aviary researcher's 5-year slog proved ivory-billed woodpeckers aren't extinct
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Lt Col Charlie Brown I'd heard years ago that this bird they thought was extinct was still with us. Good news!
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