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[blackkestrel]

Pileated Woodpecker on the feeder just now... Crappy pic, I startled it before I could get my better lens on.

Comments

[gallius]

Cooooooool! Weren't these guys on the edge of extinction?

[blackkestrel]

I think they used to be threatened, but you might be thinking the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, which is for all intent and purposes extinct now.

[gallius]

mmm Must have been, I remember a story about someone running across a small group of them years after they were declared extinct.

[blackkestrel]

Yeah that was the Ivory Billed... They however didn't have a camera or any way of recording their siting so its still hotly debated.. No-one has seen any since then... At least that's been documented.