[Aaron]

Long believed to be extinct, a magnificent bird--the Ivory-billed Woodpecker--has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas. More than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the species in the United States, a research team announced that at least one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest.

Published in the journal Science on its Science Express Web site (April 28, 2005), the findings include multiple sightings of the elusive woodpecker and frame-by-frame analyses of brief video footage. The evidence was gathered during an intensive year-long search in the Cache River and White River national wildlife refuges involving more than 50 experts and field biologists working together as part of the Big Woods Conservation Partnership, led by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University and The Nature Conservancy.

"The bird captured on video is clearly an Ivory-billed Woodpecker," said John Fitzpatrick, the Science article's lead author, and director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. "Amazingly, America may have another chance to protect the future of this spectacular bird and the awesome forests in which it lives."

"It is a landmark rediscovery," said Scott Simon, director of The Nature Conservancy's Arkansas chapter. "Finding the ivory-bill in Arkansas validates decades of great conservation work and represents an incredible story of hope for the future."

Read the full story Here

This is wonderful! The Ivory-Billed has thought to be extinct, as it was last seen in 1944. I myself have always wondered if there is just one more left, and it seems there is! This is a major event for the birdwatching community. Hopefully they may put some in captive breeding, nursing the species back to health as the California Condor.

[CongressJon]

It's things like this that really make you think there's hope for Earth in the future. We're using up fossil fuels at enormous rates, bulldozing land everywhere, destroying animal habitats... And then along comes a supposedly extinct animal, back from an apparent 60-year dissapearance.

[Spikeout]

That's amazing !

[Cspace]

Long believed to be extinct, a magnificent bird--the Ivory-billed Woodpecker--has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas. More than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the species in the United States, a research team announced that at least one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest.

Published in the journal Science on its Science Express Web site (April 28, 2005), the findings include multiple sightings of the elusive woodpecker and frame-by-frame analyses of brief video footage. The evidence was gathered during an intensive year-long search in the Cache River and White River national wildlife refuges involving more than 50 experts and field biologists working together as part of the Big Woods Conservation Partnership, led by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University and The Nature Conservancy.

"The bird captured on video is clearly an Ivory-billed Woodpecker," said John Fitzpatrick, the Science article's lead author, and director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. "Amazingly, America may have another chance to protect the future of this spectacular bird and the awesome forests in which it lives."

"It is a landmark rediscovery," said Scott Simon, director of The Nature Conservancy's Arkansas chapter. "Finding the ivory-bill in Arkansas validates decades of great conservation work and represents an incredible story of hope for the future."

Read the full story Here

This is wonderful! The Ivory-Billed has thought to be extinct, as it was last seen in 1944. I myself have always wondered if there is just one more left, and it seems there is! This is a major event for the birdwatching community. Hopefully they may put some in captive breeding, nursing the species back to health as the California Condor.

That's awesome, I've always been hoping that they'd find an Ivory Bill again.

[ticktockclok]

Yup, good 'ol Ivory Bill. Ivory Jake lives across the street from 'em, but apparently not been seen for 5000 years. Maybe tomorrow they'll find him in a rat hole in the middle of Albania!

[obiwan22]

Eh...^At tick O_o


Well, I seriously doubt this Ivory bill has been alive since 1944, (I haven't read the article, so if Ivory Bills have a very long life span, then tell me) so it probably means there is more than just one...

[Dragonman]

Awesome! Hopefully there'll soon be plently of ivory bills to populate the world.

[Cspace]

Eh...^At tick O_o


Well, I seriously doubt this Ivory bill has been alive since 1944, (I haven't read the article, so if Ivory Bills have a very long life span, then tell me) so it probably means there is more than just one...

They found one, but as you said, it hints at a population of them (even if small).

[ticktockclok]

There was an article in the Chicago Tribune front page about them today.

[Dragonman]

There was an article in the Chicago Tribune front page about them today.

Wow, this is big.

[Bmatt]

heheh, yeah, its always nice when we find some supposedly extinct species. Kinda makes you think. . .