Texas Ivory-billed Woodpeckers

Although Texas has been on the edge of the woodpecker's range, sightings have been reported from the early 1800s through the present. 

Click here for a map of Texas Ivory-bill records up through 1985.  The great majority of this data came from Fred Collins and Cliff Shackelford.This is a 305kb jpeg file.

Click here for recorded posible double knocks from east Texas in 2006

Click here for an article on east Texas massive scaling, possibly done by Ivory-bills through 2006.
This is a 4.9MB PDF file

Contact John Arvin if you are interesting in volunteering to help search for the birds in Texas.
He can be reached at the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory.  http://www.gcbo.org/

Some other sites for Ivory-bill information