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SWEET TEA : Quick-draw prof bags his big bird - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription)

Second of two columns. David Luneau Was a gunslinger with a video camera. If he ever saw an ivorybilled woodpecker, he knew, he would have to be fast to catch it on film. So he set his camera within easy reach and practiced grabbing it from its perch on a Milk crate. “I practiced on every pileated woodpecker I saw,” he said in an interview last week. The most important part of his Strategy, however, Was not his quick draw but his decision to leave the camera running at all times. On April 25, 2004, he captured the rare, elusive ivory-billed woodpecker on film without ever picking up the camera, almost by happenstance, effectively bringing the bird back from the brink. Until he Made his videotape, rumors of the bird’s existence persisted. Mr. Luneau brought home the trophy film. It Was midafternoon on a day that started before 5 a.m. Mr. Luneau and Robert Henderson, his brother-in-law, were going to check a motionsensing camera on a tree. He had just lifted the electric trolling motor out of the water when both of them saw a white flash and a bird flying away from a tupelo tree. They weren’t sure, but - More available

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