Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Sought in Texas
March 25, 2007 By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer
Biologist Jonathan Fredland uses an aerial map to point out the area he and his companions will search for the ivory-billed woodpecker, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007, in the Big Thicket National Preserve in Southeast Texas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
(AP) -- Corinne Campbell stuffs her gear in waterproof sacks and stuffs them and herself into a tiny circular cutout that marks the seat in her green kayak. With a clear signal from the GPS unit clipped near her orange vest, she shoves off between large downed tree trunks. Then she propels her tiny needle-nose craft into a wide rain-swollen creek that wiggles through what's been called the biological crossroads of North America. And so begins another daylong search for a giant bird that may not exist.
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