Long-gone woodpecker lives again ... on film

Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 13:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A snippet of film shot by an amateur ornithologist in 1956 is providing researchers and bird enthusiasts with a rare opportunity to observe the behavior of the imperial woodpecker, a giant resident of Mexico's Sierra Madre now presumed extinct.

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