The March/April issue of Birding was dedicated to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The artist wrote: "I wanted to “say” something about the absence of confirming sightings since the 28 April 2005 publication in Science of the species’ rediscovery. I chose the effects of a hurricane—Hurricane Katrina, even, whose prodigious gusts, according to my narrative, felled an adjacent diseased tree. When the massive but disease-worn tree crashed to the ground, it hit its smaller neighbor, snapping the nest tree at the weakened site of the nest hole. We see the pair of Ivory-bills returning to their ruined nest, much the way human residents of the Gulf Coast returned to see their ruined homes before moving on with their lives. The female peers inside while the male watches."
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