And Elvis.

Hal Opperman

>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?
>>
>>