Long live the Coelacanth [sic?]!!!!

Kai Schraml

-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Hunn [SMTP:hunnhome at accessone.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 8:16 PM
To: thekaiser at earthlink.net
Cc: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Oaxaca...Imperial Woodpeckers

The Imperial Woodpecker is thought by most everyone to be extinct. According
to Howell & Webb it was last reported in 1956. It was the largest woodpecker
in the world, now gone the way of it's cousin, the Ivory-billed. It used to
occur in NW Mexico, nowhere near Oaxaca.

Gene Hunn.

At 04:30 PM 1/13/99 -0800, you wrote:
>To those going to Oaxaca,
>
>I think Oaxaca is one of the last places the Imperial Woodpecker (a close
kin of the Ivory-Billed) has been seen. You should keep an eye out for them...
>
>
>Kai Schraml
>
>PS. Does anyone know of good sources of research on the Imperial Woodpecker?
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