Have you ever come across a red-tailed hawk hit by a car on the side of the road?  Have you         seen a great horned owl in the woods that is unable to fly because of a broken wing?  Have you wondered if there

was  something you could do? 

      Thursday November 10th, at 7 p.m. you have the perfect opportunity to ask a member of the Raptor Rehabilitation Project at Runge Conservation Nature

Center. 

      Raptor Rehabilitation Project was founded by University of Missouri students to educate themselves about birds of prey, educate veterinary medical students about the husbandry and medicine of wild birds of prey, educate the public about birds of prey, and, most importantly, to treat injured raptors and return them to the wild.

      Some raptors are permanent residents that are used for educational purposes. These residents are taken on presentations around mid-

The Ivory-billed woodpecker, believed to be extinct until earlier this year, is the subject of the Dec. 8th meeting at 7 p.m. at Yen Ching Restaurant. Josh Duzan, an ecologist with the Nature Conservancy of Arkansas will be our speaker.         The ivory-billed, largest woodpecker in the United States and second largest in the world, had been one of six species of birds in North America thought to be extinct.  Earlier this year some evidence was released supporting the rediscovery of the ivory-billed in Arkansas.  [See September/October issue of Timberdoodle for more information.]

       Duzan will talk about the history, disappearance, and rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker.  We will also look

and listen to the recent evidence suggesting that these great birds still exist in Eastern Arkansas.  

      Our speaker works with The Nature Conservancy of Arkansas, which partnered with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, to search and prove the existence of the Ivory-billed woodpecker in the Big Woods of Arkansas where a bird was first sighted in February, 2004. 

      This 550,000-acre corridor of floodplain forest follows the bayous and rivers that flow into the Mississippi River and includes the most extensive

example of natural shoreline along the lower Mississippi. For 41 miles, the banks on both sides of the river are lined