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The only known footage of the mysterious woodpecker!

Dr. William L. Rhein, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

This is the only known footage of a living Imperial Woodpecker, filmed in Mexico in 1956 by William Rhein and donated by Ronald Thorpe. Read the full article here: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.asp...

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Painting the Imperial Woodpecker

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Educational video about the Imperial by a young Mexican Naturalist (in Spanish).

Footage of the closely related ivory-billed woodpecker

Click here to listen to the ivory-billed call, which is similar to the imperial's. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ivory-billed_Woodpecker/overview#

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Additional Resources about the Imperial Woodpecker

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/november-december-1977/in-search-imperial-woodpecker

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