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Another field season will begin in Arkansas on Nov. 1 and run through April 30. Rohrbaugh will direct 20 full-time paid staff and 100 volunteers to comb what he calls a "massive tract of land."
Experts have announced that at least one male ivory-bill has been seen and heard in the Big Woods. But, Rohrbaugh says, "We have audio recordings of what we believe to be two birds communicating."
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The 39-year-old director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Ivory-billed Woodpecker Research Project saw the fabled bird while leading a search crew in the Mississippi Delta bayou in April 2004.
"I saw the bird for no more than 2½ or 3 seconds," Rohrbaugh relays.
His sighting was not one of the seven documented in the Science journal announcing the finding earlier this year. "I was not able to get field marks. That happened to several other people as well."
But, he says, "I checked it off my list. As a birder, there are several levels of identification, and your gut tells you. I know what I saw."
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(Note: As always, unless otherwise noted, I've added the bold font for emphasis.)
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