Ep. 385: A Wild New World
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Last Woodpeckers in North America
By about 1938 or 1939, these are the only seven left. They're sometimes they're getting a chick up, occasionally a chick is getting snagged by an owl or something. Their population is growing a little bit. And at this point, the singer sewing machine company announces to the world that it has sold the logging rights to this piece of ground in 1940. The last bird anybody ever sees is a female nesting in a tree that the loggers actually cut down. As the tree is falling, she flies out of it and goes doing this, this sort of rollicking, sweeping flying motion that these woodpeckers made over the Mississippi River. It was just this gorgeous image.
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