Un Grand Pic leucique et un autre aberrant dans les Big Woods (Arkansas)

In the latest development in the search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a white Pileated Woodpecker was discovered in the White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas. Observed during February 7-13, 2006, this striking individual is mostly white with a red crest and red malar stripe, indicating that it is a male. This finding is of interest because some have suggested that the bird filmed on video by David Luneau in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in 2004 is not an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, but rather a Pileated Woodpecker with an unusual amount of white on its wings. Documentation of this nearly all-white Pileated Woodpecker, as well as a second Pileated Woodpecker with an unusually large amount of white on its primaries, shows that these striking birds could not have been mistaken for ivory-bills.