World's only video of extinct giant woodpecker discovered
Newly discovered video, restored by Cornell University, offers a fleeting glimpse of a stunning bird that was once widespread in the old pine forests of Mexico.
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i saw two giant woodpeckers a couple of miles out of Salem,Oregon in 2011 in the beginning of summer. They were all black with deep red around the head and neck and would like to know whats up with that. Thank you---They were the size of a skinny chicken!
looks like the pileated woodpecker that I grew up with - my house was on a dead end dirt road in the Hudson Valley and we were right on top of a huge wetland....you could hear that guy no matter where you were in the valley, he was so big and loud!
Such a pity about the quality of the video. But is it not sad to think that the creature we see here is no more. Just today I said to my son that I must visit the Orangutans in Borneo before they are wiped from the face of earth forever. The same applies to the African Rhinoceros who is being butchered and bludgeoned to death by the Chinese and Vietnamese. Are human beings really the superior creatures that we believe we are ?
It might be a little much to credit the Tarahumara people with any substantial role in the extinction of the Imperial Woodpecker. In fact, by now I would not be surprised to hear that the people themselves were also extinct.
Known to themselves as the Raramuri (a word the invading Spaniards could not get comfortable with), they inhabited portions of the Copper Canyon area of Mexico. What the Spaniards could not accomplish, their assimilation and disappearance into a foreign culture,.... More
