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According to published reports by University of Auburn Researchers a recent sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker has been claimed and the team claims that the ivory-billed woodpecker may be indeed still be in existence and living in the Choctawhatchee River Basin in the Florida Panhandle.  This is fascinating news for me as I live within 30 miles of the area and have begun a personal quest to attempt to photograph the bird that until recently was thought to have been extinct since the 1950's.  I am keeping a blog and photographs at my website at www.whispersofnature.org.  

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Friends are the best collectibles...Robert Jones...Panama City Beach, Florida...www.whispersofnature.org.

Nice Photos! I hope you can get a shot of an Ivory-bill do prove to the skeptics.

 

Your "yet to be identified hawk" sitting in the tree is a Red-shouldered Hawk. Notice the red barring on the chest.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/featherbrain1223/

Thanks for the compliment and thanks for the ID on the hawk.  I strongly suspected it to be a red-shouldered hawk but was not sure enough to go with it.  The bird kept himself shielded from me while in flight.  I am pretty sure that it was a different bird than the other red-shouldered hawk as there was a substantial difference in local between the two photos.

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Friends are the best collectibles...Robert Jones...Panama City Beach, Florida...www.whispersofnature.org.

I was having a discussion with a friend about the ivory-billed and in the dialog I decided to pull a photo of a red-pileated woodpecker out of moth balls.  The photo got a number of positive compliments before  If any are interested in seeing it it is at

http://www.rrbbs.com/cgi-bin/bbs/thread.pl?1-15449

or

www.whispersofnature.org

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Friends are the best collectibles...Robert Jones...Panama City Beach, Florida...www.whispersofnature.org.

I have pics of a red-bellied woodpecker taken Saturday along the Choctawhatchee posted at

http://www.rrbbs.com/cgi-bin/bbs/thread.pl?3-2780

or at

www.whispersofnature.org

 

The quest continues :)

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Friends are the best collectibles...Robert Jones...Panama City Beach, Florida...www.whispersofnature.org.