On the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
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Other Upcoming Events at Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education
April 9 Paradigms, Perceptions and Progress in Understanding and Managing Striped Bass Fisheries in Southeastern Reservoirs The striped bass is considered an anadromous fish, living part of its life in the ocean and returning to freshwater to spawn. Many populations of striped bass now live in reservoirs and cannot migrate to the sea. Dr. Jim Rice of N.C. State University will discuss what scientists have discovered about managing this popular game fish.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (Feb. 25, 2008) –The ivory-billed is the most elusive woodpecker in America, hiding in swamps and floodplain forests. Or it isn’t – because it is extinct.
The March 12 program in the Fisheries and Wildlife Seminar series at the Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education will examine the exciting and controversial search for the ivory-billed woodpecker, from first-hand perspectives of two searchers.
Dr. Diane Deresienski and Dr. Greg Lewbart of N.C. State University will discuss their 2006-‘07 trip to the Florida Panhandle as members of an Auburn University-led research team. They will talk about the logistics of undertaking searches in a swamp and discuss the conservation and politics related to the ivory-billed woodpecker.
The range of the ivory-billed woodpecker once extended into North Carolina. The last confirmed sighting of the bird was in 1944 in Louisiana, though probable sightings in Arkansas in 2004-’05 created hope that the species had somehow avoided extinction.
The seminar is free and no registration is required. A networking session begins at 3:30 p.m. with the program starting at 4 p.m. The series is presented by N.C. State University’s Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences Program and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.
The Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education is located on the first floor of the N.C Wildlife Resources Commission’s administrative headquarters, 1751 Varsity Drive. A free parking pass is available by e-mail request, with name and mailing address included, to centennialcenter@ncwildlife.org. For more information, call (919) 707-0203.
About the Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education
Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education is a free interactive learning facility of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission for the Piedmont region. Visitors can view exhibits, watch a 20-minute video and tour an outdoors demonstration area. For more information, call (919) 707-0209. |
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