Imperial Woodpecker Art

  

   This is a handcolored lithograph of an Imperial Woodpecker from the book, Das Buch der Welt.  The book was published by, Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung“ in Stuttgart/Germany, 1866.  The artist is E. Hochdanz who was a prominent natural history illustrator of the time.

     Other birds in the illustration are the: Northern Flicker (yellow shafted flicker, or Yellowhammer if you’re from Alabama), Female red-naped Sapsucker, as the red on the forehead extends to the bill.  This could possibly be a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker as illustration of this era lack accuracy, and Lewis’s Woodpecker. I am extremely happy to add this to my collection of Ivory-bill art!

Tim Gallagher Interview

Tim Gallagher, Editor; Living Bird Magazine
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

     Tim Gallager was intervied on a NYC National Public Radio station concering "Pip," A Red-tailed Hawk nestling, whose parents built a nest on a 12th floor ledge of the New York Universtiy building.  Follow this link to hear the interview:  http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/jun/21/following-hawk-cam-goodbye-pip/

The following is the program description from the website with additional links:
Pip is preparing to leave the nest, and the Hawk Cam, and start his life in the wilds of New York City. We get an update on the hawk family from Emily Rueb, senior producer on the Metro desk at the New York Times, and Tim Gallagher, editor of Living Bird magazine at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and author of Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the 21st Century.