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Instructions on how to identify and report Ivory-billed Woodpeckers (Cornell Lab of Ornithology website)

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Texas by Fred Collins (3 MB PDF)
Introduction by Fred Collins: "This document, The Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Texas, was written for a technical writing class I took as an undergraduate in the fall semester of my senior year at Texas A&M. Its production was pre-computer era and was only one course of six I was taking that semester. However, it was the beginning of a multiyear interest in the status of the bird in Texas at the time and I continued to receive reports into the early 80s. With the renewed interest in the species prompted by its discovery in Arkansas I am in the process of updating the report. The new report will be Potential for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Texas 2005. If lightening can strike twice, perhaps it can be followed by Status of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Texas 2006!"

A Compilation of Published Records of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Texas by Clifford Shackelford (4 MB PDF)
Grateful thanks to the Texas Ornithological Society for permission to reprint this paper which originally appeared in the The Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker found in Arkansas; implications for Texas by Fred Collins (400 KB PDF)