By Marni Pyke mpyke@@dailyherald.com Love is in the air over Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve. At least that's the hope of local birders and DuPage County Forest Preserve District naturalists with the surprise sighting last week of a pair of pileated woodpeckers.

By JAN BARRY, STAFF WRITER The forest in the Pequannock Watershed is quiet in winter, but signs of wildlife are everywhere.

By Joseph Sjostrom, Chicago Tribune Nov. 28--The pileated woodpecker is a loud, large bird. An inspiration for the Woody Woodpecker cartoon character, it measures 15 inches from head to tail and can be heard from about a quarter of a mile away when it pounds its beak into a hollow tree.

By Christian Berg, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Feb. 28--For the past four months, Corinne Campbell has spent 10 to 12 hours a day slogging through Godforsaken, waterlogged terrain in a fruitless search for a giant bird that may not even exist.

COLUMBIA, S.C. _ Matthew Moskwik believes ivory-billed woodpeckers still live in South Carolina. He'd better, because it's his job to coordinate a continuing search for the long-feared-extinct birds in the state.