Summary: <p>This week we take a look at (and listen to) the ivory-billed woodpecker and its close relative, the imperial woodpecker. Is it alive? Is it extinct? How can one innocent bird be the source of so much drama?</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-109" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ibwps1935.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="166"></p> <p>A pair of ivory-billed woodpeckers. Photo taken in 1935.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-108" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ivorybillvideoframe-300x74.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="74"></p> <p>Frames from the alleged ivory-billed woodpecker video taken in 2004. Not super clear there, guys.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-110" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Imperial-Ivory-Billed-and-Pileated-Woodpeckers-243x300.jpg" alt="" width="243" height="300"></p> <p>Above, left to right: imperial woodpecker, ivory-billed woodpecker, and pileated woodpecker.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/impwpsstuffed-300x295.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="295"></p> <p>A pair of stuffed imperial woodpeckers.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-112" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ladyimperialwp-300x219.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="219"></p> <p>A still from the 1958 video of a female imperial woodpecker. She’s so cute! Her crest bobs around as she moves.</p> <p>Thanks for listening to me blather on about woodpeckers!</p>
