Introduction: According to Tanner, scaling bark was the Ivory-billed Woodpecker’s primary foraging strategy during breeding season in Louisiana. Tanner wrote that the ivorybill is “capable of easily scaling away heavy bark that other woodpeckers could not loosen.” (Tanner 1942). All woodpeckers in genus Campephilus have specific anatomical characteristics that enable them to forage in this […]
I’m still in mourning and adjusting to the loss of my friend. Thanks to all who have expressed appreciation for our work and a desire for it to continue. I’m sure Frank would have felt the same, and with that in mind, this will be the first of two or three installments discussing Pileated Woodpecker […]
I’m looking forward to returning to Louisiana at the end of the month and have high hopes that our trail cams will reveal just what’s removing bark from the trees in our search area. In the meantime, I thought I’d compile a new group of links to images showing bark scaling (without accompanying excavation) done […]
On the morning of the last day of Mark’s last visit, April 26, 2015, the forecast (and more importantly the doppler confirmed it) was terrible, and Mark had a terrible head cold and or allergy issue going on. He was feeling terrible! However, earlier that week he had brought in an interesting photo of a […]
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