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Re: Ivory Billed Woodpeckers

#16980
From: segura@rice.edu
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 18:35
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Travis Patrick Lanier (tlanier@tiger.lsu.edu) wrote:
: de Yeti (ignaz@payne.mps.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
: : I had never heard about stuffed IBWPs being around. Where can I
: : see one?

: : Ignaz

: Well, as someone mentioned earlier, there is one on display at the
: Museum of Natural Science here at LSU.  (It is kind of faded, though.  I
: suppose if you ask they have other specimens in better shape you could
: look at.)

If I remember correctly the one they had which was collected in the
1880's had faded feathers (this was in 1976).  The ones from the 1930's
were in much better shape, but I don't know if these are shown to the
public unless you talk to the conservator and are very interested.

Chad


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