The elusive Ivorybill
The Artdog Image of Interest, Image 1 of a planned series of 4 by John James Audubon I’ll never forget the day my mother thought we’d seen an Ivory-billed Woodpecker at our backyard bird feeder. I was a little kid: I’d never heard of one, before. And it was the biggest bird we’d ever seen at the feeder. It wasn’t an Ivorybill, of course. This was sometime in the 1960s, and the last confirmed sighting had been in 1944. Eventually, Mom reluctantly decided it probably had been a Pileated woodpecker, which…