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Dec. 23, 2011
Searching For A Ghost Bird
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| No one is sure whether the Imperial woodpecker is extinct--the two-foot-tall relative of the Ivory-billed woodpecker lives in a remote mountain range in Mexico, and was last credibly spotted in the 1990s. Tim Gallagher, editor of Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine, describes a hair-raising expedition to try to save the woodpecker and make it home unscathed.Bird and projector sounds courtesy Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ronald Thorpe, Tim Gallagher. |
Produced by Flora Lichtman, Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video
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Tim Gallagher
Editor-in-Chief, Living Bird magazine
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Flora Lichtman
Author, "Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us" (Wiley, 2011)
Multimedia Editor,
NPR's Science Friday
New York, New York
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