Thomas Michot said he had a “secret weapon” in his pocket, one that he planned to use in his decades-long search for a bird that many believe is extinct. The 73-year-old birder and biologist has been ...

New footage suggests that ivory-billed woodpeckers, believed to be extinct after going unseen for nearly eight decades, may still survive in unknown numbers. Video and photographs from a Louisiana ...

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The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) was a twenty-inch-long woodpecker native to the American southeast that has been presumed extinct since the mid-20th century. But last month, a ...

ITHACA, N.Y./ RICHMOND, Va. -- Since early January, bird researchers, conservationists and bird enthusiasts everywhere have been holding their breath for results of a series of cooperative expeditions ...

Seeing is believing, provided that it's you doing the seeing. And the believing. In 2005, to the astonishment of the bird-watching world, a team of ornithologists announced they'd seen a ghost - the ...

Earlier in July, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would wait another six months before declaring the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct. While the last confirmed sighting of the bird was ...

All is not lost for the storied ivory-billed woodpecker, not for another six months anyway. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to hold off on listing the bird as extinct while researchers and ...

The debate on whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is actually extinct may be ongoing, but a genetic engineering company is aiming to restore the fabled species to its natural habitat. In 2021, the U.S ...

Elvis. That is the nickname that Larry Mallard, refuge manager for the White River National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Arkansas, uses for the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), ...

Sightings of the iconic species have been sparse since the early 20th century. The debate on whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is actually extinct may be ongoing, but a genetic engineering company ...