Here's the reworking of the Ivory-billed Woodpeckers from the original 2003 SBRM Woodpeckers set. These woodpeckers use the same model base that my new roadrunner does (posted a couple images ago). It's a pretty versatile model-- I'm also doing Turacos with it. This new Woodpeckers update is complete and being beta tested now, it will appear with other updates as part of my Audubon's Birthday event. I used my "Big Cypress" set here because its the Ivory-billed Woodpeckers textbook habitat. When actually creating the habitat I envisioned a scene pretty close to what I have here, the woodpeckers climbing a cypress tree with the bromeliad and ghost orchid helping to frame the image. The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is the largest woodpecker north of Mexico and the third largest in the world. The last Ivory-billed Woodpecker was sighted in the mid 1930’s. Since then, it has been presumed extinct. The most eloquent descriptions of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's habitats are those provided by the colonial naturalists who observed the species in habitats relatively untouched by humans. For example, Alexander Wilson in 1831 in describing habitats near Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote that the Ivory-bill “. . . seeks the most towering trees of the forest; seemingly particularly attached to those prodigious cypress swamps, whose crowded giant sons stretch their bare and blasted or moss-hung arms midway to the skies. In these almost inaccessible recesses, amid ruinous piles of impending timber . . .” Audubon in 1842 wrote, “The flight of this bird is graceful in the extreme, although seldom prolonged to more than a few hundred yards at a time, unless when it has to cross a large river, which it does in deep undulations, opening its wings at first to their full extent, and nearly closing them to renew the propelling impulse. The transit from one tree to another, even should the distance be as much as a hundred yards, is performed by a single sweep, and the bird appears as if merely swinging itself from the top of the one tree to that of the other, forming an elegant curved line." In 2002, rumors flooded the bird world that the Ivory-billed had been seen again in Arkansas. In 2004, Cornell Lab of Ornithology started a scientific monitoring system to determine if the Ivory-billed was not really extinct. In the 2005-2006 season, there were 14 sightings, 4 of which were considered with some scientific merit. While there’s been no photography to verify the sightings, there has been audio recorded which appears to be the distinctive call and drum of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Since then, there have been no credible sightings (although reports of possible birds in Florida and Cuba). The Ivory-billeds are occasionally reported; most reports pertain to the Pileated Woodpeckers with partial albinism, often in a symmetrical pattern in the wings, creating a white-winged appearance similar to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Rendered in Iray without any post work