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BIRDS ON THE BRAIN
Two New York museums celebrate the resurrection of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, thought to be extinct until a sighting in Arkansas last week. The species was often referred to as the Lord God Bird because of the exclamations it provoked from those who sighted it. The New-York Historical Society unveils a recording of the bird’s call paired with a fragile watercolor by John James Audubon that has not been on public view since 1975. The executive director of the NYC Audubon Society, E.J. McAdams, will discuss the significance of the recently reported sighting at the unveiling. Audubon called the bird the “great chieftain of the woodpecker tribe.” (Today, noon, New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street, 212-873-3400, free with museum admission, $10 general, $5 seniors, teachers, and students, free for members and children under 12). In Staten Island, two taxidermied specimens are on display. The male and female were collected in Florida during the 1860s by the brother of John Crooke, a Staten Island naturalist, inventor, and photographer. (Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-5 p.m., Staten Island Museum, 75 Stuyvesant Pl., between Hamilton Avenue and Wall Street, Staten Island, 718-727-1135, $2 general, $1 seniors and students, free for children under 12.)
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