Editor note: Media may enter through the South Entrance off N. 50th St. & Fremont Ave N. and proceed to the Education Center Auditorium on your own.

What:
Second-graders from Seattle’s John Rogers Elementary and Rainier View Elementary are visiting Woodland Park Zoo to learn all about a nearly extinct, giant woodpecker! Phillip Hoose, author of The Race to Save the Lord-God Bird, and Gene Sparling, the kayaker whose sighting of the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas triggered an extensive scientific search, will give a special multi-media presentation about the ivory-billed woodpecker, long believed to be extinct and recently rediscovered in the swampy bottomlands of eastern Arkansas.

When:
Thursday, November 10, 10:00 a.m

Where:
Woodland Park Zoo's Education Center Auditorium located near the South Entrance of the zoo at N. 50th St. and Fremont Ave. N.

Info:
The zoo is currently open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily. For general zoo information, visit our Web site at www.zoo.org or call 206.684.4800 or 206.684.4026 (TTY).

For more information about the ivory-billed woodpecker, please visit www.nature.org/ivorybill.

Other:
On November, 9, the Nature Conservancy with support from Woodland Park Zoo will host a sold-out, multi-media event, “Hope Takes Flight,” about the remarkable rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Phillip Hoose, author of The Race to Save the Lord-God Bird, and Gene Sparling, the kayaker whose sighting of the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas triggered an extensive scientific search, will speak about the bird’s near-extinction, efforts to save its imperiled habitat, and its sensational rediscovery. The event is sponsored by Goldman Sachs, Huntington Steele, NBBJ, and Seattle-Northwest Securities Corporation And SNW Asset Management.

For more information about the event, please visit www.nature.org/washington.

Accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, award-winning Woodland Park Zoo is famed for pioneering naturalistic exhibits and setting a standard for zoos all over the world. With conservation, education and excellent animal care at the core of the zoo’s mission, the zoo is helping to save endangered species in Washington state and around the world including tree kangaroos, snow leopards, red-crowned cranes, African wild dogs, western pond turtles and Oregon silverspot butterflies. By inspiring visitors and others to care and act, Woodland Park Zoo is making a difference in our planet’s future.