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I've posted these before, but will do so again — a few of the past Ivory-bill reports for the month of April that preceded our ‘modern’ day circumstance:
April 1924: Arthur Allen locates/photographs a pair of Ivory-bills in central Florida (that were later killed).
April, 1932: Mason Spencer shoots an Ivory-bill in the Singer Tract and delivers it to a game warden to prove that the species which ornithologists believed was long extinct (but La. backwoodsmen knew wasn't) was still around.
April, 1944: Donald Eckelberry views and sketches an Ivory-bill at the Singer Tract, which some consider as the last confirmed sighting of the species in the U.S., following James Tanner's study and reports from same area.
April, 1955: author and past Audubon President John Terres reports having seen 2 Ivory-bills fly over a highway near Homosassa Springs, Fla.
April, 1956: in the press, an Ivory-bill is reportedly shot in North Carolina though no evidence comes forth to support the claim.
April, 1966: an Ivory-bill is reported in the Neches River swamp area of east Texas.
April, 1967: the first of several sightings of Ivory-bills over a couple of years by H.N. Agey and and George Heinzmann in Polk County, Fla.
April, 1985: Dennis Garratt reports an Ivory-bill in Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Fla.
April, 1999: David Kulivan reports 2 Ivory-bills in the Pearl River refuge of southeast La. Followup searches fail to re-locate or confirm, but the stage sets for the current day saga of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker to begin anew.
[over the above time-period there are easily dozens, perhaps hundreds, of other IBWO claims... the above are just some of the more prominent highlights specific to the month of April]
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