Ivory-billed woodpecker spottted on Thursday

You can keep current at the Auburn search team's blog at:

http://ibwo.blogspot.com/

Gotta love the church sign at the blog...

Or, have a look at the official Auburn website:

http://auburn.edu/academic/science_...gy/faculty/webpages/hill/ivorybill/index.html

Click on "updates" on the Auburn website for the latest. The news is...

-One of the searchers recorded some promising calls last week on his video recorder. Didn't see a bird, though.
-They are hoping for a repeat of the heavy activity on the sound stations that they had last Feb. The thinking is that if there is actually a breeding pair alive in there, that they will find a nest tree in Feb for a spring hatching. There are quite a few automatic still cameras in place catching images of potential roost holes on a regular basis.
-If I read between the lines, they have had teams in place all winter, not only servicing the sound recorders and cameras, but paddling around and looking.
-Friends of mine in AR tell me that Cornell has just about given up on the Brinkley area. Don't know if the recent reported sighting there will change their minds.