>There a story -- perhaps apochryphal -- about JJ Audubon (or maybe it was
>Wilson) who captured an Ivory-billed Woodpecker and kept it in his hotel
>room while studying it for a sketch. While he was out one day it is said
>to have excavated a hole in the wall through which it made its escape.
>
>Gene Hunn.

Too bad it escaped--maybe it could have been the start of the Ivory-billed
Woodpecker captive breeding program....

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