Friends of Hagerman invite you to the Second Saturday Program...In search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

September 8, 2007 10:00 a.m.

Hagerman National Wildlife Education Center

We are privileged to have

Dr. Wayne Meyer,

associate professor of biology at Austin College and a long time bird watcher at Hagerman, to present a program on the Ivory-Billed woodpecker. Dr. Meyer was selected as a member of a Cornell University search team

for Ivory-Billed woodpeckers of SE Arkansas.

Call 903-786-2826, ext. 10, to reserve your space. 

 

A decade ago, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was considered extinct.  However, indications of at least one male bird in Arkansas in 2004 and 2005 were suggested in April 2005 by a team led by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (Fitzpatrick et al., 2005). If confirmed, this would make the Ivory-billed Woodpecker a lazarus species, a species that is rediscovered alive after being considered extinct,

 

Wayne Meyer began birding seriously at the age of thirteen when his father, brother and the Sibleys (authors and illustrators of highly acclaimed books about birds and birding including the Sibley Field Guide to Birds) started observing the birds of Connecticut. Since then Meyer has birded extensively on both coasts and in Texas and Oklahoma. Finally realizing his life's desire to be paid for looking at birds, he became a Professor of Biology at Austin College. Trained as an avian physiologist, Meyer has studied the ability of birds to tell time and is currently investigating song learning in the painted bunting.