Mark A MichaelsProject Principalis
Mark A Michaels
Juris Doctor
Long-term, systematic study of a site where Ivory-billed Woodpeckers have been reported.
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Introduction
Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) and southern forest ecology are my main areas of research. I'm the co-founder of Project Coyote, now Project Principalis, and am a research associate with the National Aviary, which partners with Project Principalis
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Few photographs exist of living Ivory-billed Woodpeckers (Campephilus principalis), and no previously known photographs show the species foraging. We found a reference in James T. Tanner's field notes to several photographs taken on 23 April 1939 of a group of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers foraging in a recently dead pecan tree (Carya illinoinensis). We...
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is an avian Rorschach. Birders, ornithologists, and armchair observers of all stripes project their ideas onto this iconic species. It inhabits a liminal space between existence and extinction, between science and cryptozoology, between known and unknown, and when it comes to Cuba, between species and subspecies. Thus, A...
The history of the decline of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is long and complex, but the status of the species since 1944, when the last widely accepted sighting in con- tinental North America occurred, is particularly controversial. Reports of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers have continued, but none has reached the threshold of quality for general acceptan...
New video evidence showing an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, presented to the US Fish and Wildlife Service during the reopened public comment period on the species' proposed delisting as extinct.
The history of decline of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is long, complex, and controversial. The last widely accepted sighting of this species in continental North America was 1944. Reports of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers have continued, yet in 2021 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed declaring the species extinct. We draw on 10 years of search e...
LOOKING FOR THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER IN EASTERN CUBA—Alberto R. Estrada. 2014. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. San Bernardino, CA. 130 pages. ISBN 978-1503351844. $25.00.
There is archaeological and historical evidence of the past occurrence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) in Virginia. This paper reviews records that have been previously reported, disputes the validity of a purported collection of a specimen between the border of West Virginia and Virginia, presents newly uncovered evidence,...
Looks at the contemporary debate on US immigration, focusing particularly on the increasing articulation of eugenics. Notes that, at times of economic and moral crisis, biological generalizations tend to resurface to provide support for the existing system of privilege and rights, and that the information superhighway provides the perfect vehicle f...
