Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Sought in Texas

March 25, 2007 By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Sought in Texas

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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