Subject: Oaxaca...Imperial Woodpeckers -Reply
Date: Jan 14 20:08:35 1999
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 09:51 AM 1/14/99 -0800, Kai Schraml wrote:

>Thanks a bunch for the note. Let me ask you something else. Have any of
the recent teams for the Ivory Billed, Imperial, Bachman's, etc... taken
advantage of the very highly sophisticated GPS guided mapping technologies
to target very specific habitat that may have been missed by the "Well, we
last saw them around here" methods?

In regard to large woodpeckers, I'll have to point out that they seem to
require
large tracts of habitat. Missing a square mile of habitat based on the "we
last saw
them around here" model might be possible, the large contiguous area or
separate patches
with substantial connectivity between them seems very small.


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