This learn node is about one elusive bird: The Big Woods Conservation Partnership is on the hunt to spot more Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. You can follow the search or join it to attempt your own sightings by clicking here where you will learn about the search and how you can spot the difference between ivory-billed and pileated woodpeckers. Long thought to have gone extinct, the Ivory-billed woodpecker seems only to have gone into hiding. The present hunt’s many aspects includes this recent story of attempting spotings from a helicopter: Onward and Upward in the Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The illustration show in this post is by John James Audubon, who drew these biggest woodpeckers of North America in the 19th century when they were plentiful. You will be successful in hunting this beautiful bird in New York City in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art where a painting by Joseph Barthomew Kidd, based on Audubon’s drawing hangs in the American Wing.
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