Is the larger, grander cousin of our Ivory-billed Woodpecker — the Imperial Woodpecker — still flying in western Mexico? Last spring's announcement of the apparent rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker shocked and delighted birders. After all,the Ivory-bill is an icon of America's wild primeval forest. It is boldly marked and so large that observers exclaimed, "Lord God, what a bird!" So remarkable is the Ivory-bill that it strains the imagination to think that North America once was, and still may be, the home of a woodpecker that was even larger, even more thrilling to behold, and every bit as iconic.
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