Quest for 47 species of 'extinct' birds is launched
BirdLife International has launched an unprecedented search for 47 bird species which haven't been seen for up to 184 years.
EXTINCT BIRD: The ivory-billed woodpecker, which is believed to be extinct, may have been spotted in Arkansas in 2005. (Illustrations of male and female: Audubon) 
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I am not sure about the bird's existence, but if it still exists, then let it live in peace.
hey guys,leave the birds alone. DON'T bother them.
Didn't We (the Collective-Earth we) just discover a grove of "extinct" old growth chestnut trees somewhere in Georgia, which have apparently survived the blight that wiped them from the East Coast of North America?
I think it possible that should we be patient and truly seek, we would surely find other animals that folk assumed had died off.
We can no longer push off a wave of environmentalism when there is so much global demand, like a wave, we can ride it or it will leave us.... More
I've no doubt that other commenters have seen the bird in the photo, because it depicts the still-common pileated woodpecker, which bears little resemblance to the ivory-billed woodpecker. There exists no recent, identifiable photo of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Please correct this serious error.
Keep looking--its more than possible that "extinct" birds are out there. I saw that woodpecker too (ivory billed) and I know its out there. People have told the game and fish people for years they were seeing mountain lions in Arkansas and it was stoutly denied. Guess what--now they have photos from a deer feeding stand in one of our wildlife preserves. If we're lucky maybe we can reclaim some of our lost species.
A few yrs back when when a new species of bird was discovered in eastern Russia, the American ornithologist appeared to salivate in an interview while describing how much he would value a sample of this rare bird & how he would preserve it (by squeezing the chest cavity like a constrictor snake). Call me a cynic, but if one of these species happens to be found, the first one out there will be the Smithsonian or some Natural History museum looking for a sample for their collection.
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i live in mexico, in a city called cuernavaca morelos! ( the eternal springs) ,and i have seen that bird,. its a good pequer , and they live all around the woods near my home!, i dont know why they say its exitinguished, the world is big , ... you know!, no because you dont see them in a sone means that thay cant live in another one!
CHEERS!
You saw a species that resembles the ivory-billed (whose geographic range was/is the southeastern US and Cuba). Here are similar species: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campephilus
After visiting the .org site with regard to the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, the bird in the photograph bears a striking resemblance to that of the Piliated Woodpecker (aka the "Thunderbird") that appears in my back yard on occassion. The Piliateds have always fascinated me. I would love to see an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker to compare the two.
Love the birds.
To her dying day my mother, an educated, no-nonsense woman, swore she saw an ivory billed woodpecker in Macon, Georgia, in 1975. She was hanging laundry when an unusually large shadow crossed over. Looking up, she saw it land on a pine tree in in our backyard, so she ran inside to get my dad's manual 35 mm camera. She took a photo but it was so blurry the DNR blew her off as a silly housewife, even when she described its size and appearance. She never saw it again, but she never doubted.... More
