ever since a certain large, unnamed conservation organization “rediscovered” the ivory-billed woodpecker in 2005, i’ve had nightmares about pileated woodpeckers (the smaller but similarly marked woodpecker that the the ivory-billed woodpecker has been frequently mistaken for).
which makes it awesome that the first bird it was the first bird that I saw in costa rica — pileated, not ivory-billed.
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which makes it awesome that the first bird it was the first bird that I saw in costa rica — pileated, not ivory-billed.