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Ivory Billed query
- To: Carolinabirds <carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu>
- Subject: Ivory Billed query
- From: Russell Lay <russlay@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:37:21 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Not related to NC birding, but something I've been curious
about...Political problems aside, has there been any discussion in academic
circles concerning the Ivory Bill population in Cuba? Does it still exist,
and if so, has anyone pondered cultivating that flock and perhaps
reintroducing it in the US? Seems as though I had read the Cuban population
was extinct also, but I've also read reports/articles that seem to treat it
as a species that is still present. With all of the false starts at
normalizing relations with Cuba, and given the publicity in the general
population (NPR, NY Times) about the attempts to find the woodpecker here,
seems like a joint project for this hapless woodpecker could be the 21st
century version of ping-pong diplomacy!
Russ Lay
Nags Head, NC