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<p>[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 885390, member: 4703"]<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://secure.numismaster.com/ta/fwimg/357511/62112288/3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://secure.numismaster.com/ta/fwimg/357511/62245610/3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>KM#768 (15g .999 silver, 5000 proofs minted) is identified by Krause as <ul> <li>"Cuban green woodpecker" online at Numismaster.com (source of the photos)</li> <li>"Multicolor woodpecker" in the 2007 Premier Ed. Krause 21st Century print volume, and</li> <li>"Cuban red-bellied woodpecker" in the 2008 2d Ed. of that same work.</li> </ul><p></p><p>It is also the <i>only</i> woodpecker I can find among the many aviary denizens in the 19th-21st Century listings for Cuba.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, according to <a href="http://www.nashvillezoo.org/piciformes/picidae.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nashvillezoo.org/piciformes/picidae.htm" rel="nofollow">this site</a> the ivory-billed woodpecker is "thought to be extinct".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 885390, member: 4703"][center][IMG]http://secure.numismaster.com/ta/fwimg/357511/62112288/3.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://secure.numismaster.com/ta/fwimg/357511/62245610/3.jpg[/IMG][/center] KM#768 (15g .999 silver, 5000 proofs minted) is identified by Krause as[list]"Cuban green woodpecker" online at Numismaster.com (source of the photos)[*]"Multicolor woodpecker" in the 2007 Premier Ed. Krause 21st Century print volume, and[*]"Cuban red-bellied woodpecker" in the 2008 2d Ed. of that same work.[/list] It is also the [i]only[/i] woodpecker I can find among the many aviary denizens in the 19th-21st Century listings for Cuba. Anyway, according to [URL="http://www.nashvillezoo.org/piciformes/picidae.htm"]this site[/URL] the ivory-billed woodpecker is "thought to be extinct".[/QUOTE]
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