Bayou blues: Working to save the US from the worst potential oil, gas and fishing crisis
... conclusions and coming to an end in the Louisiana bayou with the JASON Foundation for Education. "The loss of Louisiana's wetlands is the single most catastrophic environmental disaster ever to hit the continental U.S.," said Mark Schexnayder, a marine biologist with the Louisiana State University Agricul...Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas
...traveled to Arkansas and then with Sparling to the bayou where he had seen the bird. On Feb. 27, as Sparli...a large black-and-white woodpecker flew across the bayou less than 70 feet in front of Gallagher and Harrison, who simultaneously cried out: "Ivory-bill!" Mi...Video analysis adds evidence for ivory-billed woodpecker
...ideo camera running as his canoe drifted through a bayou in the Big Woods of Arkansas -- and recorded an ivory-billed woodpecker. The video, blurry because the recorder was on auto focus, was the main piece of evidence featured online in an April 25 Science Express paper claiming the rediscovery of the w...Searchers key in on ivory-billed woodpecker habitat
...edle in a haystack," this long, narrow corridor of bayou makes it easier for people to spot a bird flying by. Because of its old growth, it is also home to long-horned beetle larvae, the ivory-billed's version of filet mignon. "Bayou DeView contains the highest density of dead and dying woods," said Martja...Robotic cameras join search for 'Holy Grail of bird-watching'
...ey settled upon a power line that cuts through the bayou and provides a 50-foot-wide clearing unobstructed ... the bird. But if this persistent robot out on the bayou manages to capture verifiable high-resolution images of the legendary ivory-bill, it would be a majo...