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Friday, October 27, 2006

Spruce Pine

These large cavities and recent scaling are in dead spruce pines, Pinus glabra, a fairly common large pine of the higher bottomlands in our search area. Its distribution does not extend into Arkansas or peninsular Florida, and is almost entirely within the historic range of the ivory-bill.

Compare to John Dennis' 1948 Cuba photo.

A remote camera (Reconyx) is currently trained on this lightning-killed feeding tree, which still has dead needles and very tight bark.

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