Ivory-billed Woodpeckers on the Web: A Reader’s Guide

While Ivory-billed Woodpeckers have been elusively difficult to find in real-life, they (or at least discussion of them) abound on the Web. The purpose of this post is to list the Blogs, Web Sites, and Bird Forums where Ivory-bills are known to thrive (i.e., sites that are devoted exclusively or primarily to Ivory-bills). These should provide you with untold hours of vicarious adventures--real or imagined--with the King of the Woodpeckers.

Blogs

Carolina Ivorybills (Christen) - Initiated 3/12/2006; inactive since 9/21/06.

Feathered Ghosts (Mark VanderVen) - Initiated 1/11/2007.

Ivory-bill Skeptic (Tom Nelson) - Initiated 7/26/2005.

Ivory-billed Septic (Anonymous) - Initiated 2/12/2007.

Ivory-bills LiVE!! (cyber thrush) - Initiated 7/24/2005.

Kyle’s Blog (Kyle Gerstner) - Initiated 2/2/2007.

Mobile Search Team Travel Log - IBWO (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) - Initiated 12/5/2006.

News from the 2007 Search - IBWO (Dan Mennill, Windsor) - Initiated 1/13/2007.

Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Diane Deresienski, Piedmont Wildlife Center) - Initiated 12/14/2006.

The Choctawhatchee Search (Team Nokuse) - Initiated 9/21/06.

Updates from Florida - IBWO (Geoff Hill, Auburn) - Initiated 11/09/2006.

Web Sites

Birding America (Mary Scott)

Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Arkansas Game & Fish Commission)

Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Fish and Wildlife Service)

Ivory-billed Woodpecker (The Nature Conservancy)

Ivory-billed Woodpecker Information (David Luneau)

Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in the Florida Panhandle (Geoff Hill, Auburn)

Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in the Pearl River Basin (fish crow aka Mike Collins)

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker (John C. Arvin)

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker Foundation (Bobby Harrison)

The Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

The Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Dan Mennill, Windsor)

The Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Van Remsen, LSU)

Forums

BirdForum - As of 2/14/2007, discussions of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker on BirdForum consisted of more than 10,330 posts in 6 threads (threads listed below in reverse chronological order):

Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Total posts: more than 9,720 as of 2/15/2006 (first: 5/18/2000; still active).

Evidence for Survival of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker = Total posts: 407 (first: 8/22/2005; last: 12/22/2005); inactive.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker Updates - Total posts: 40 (first: 5/10/2005; last: 10/28/2005); inactive.

I Have Seen An Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Total posts: 246 (first: 4/29/2005; last: 9/21/2006); inactive.

Ivory billed Found!! - Total posts: 41 (first: 4/28/2005; last: 1/17/2006); inactive.

Possible Ivory Billed Woodpecker Sighting in East Texas - Total posts: 67 (first: 4/23/2004; last: 6/16/2004); inactive.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker Researchers Forum - Initiated 11/9/2006. As of 2/14/2007, it consisted of more than 850 posts in 27 threads.