The Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Information and news about the large woodpecker, thought to be extinct, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Learn about current and past searches for the elusive bird.
birds.cornell.edu/ivory
Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Recovery Starts Here...
Provides information on how to report a sighting and what steps the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners are taking to aid the birds' recovery.
www.fws.gov/ivorybill
scienceNOW: Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
NOVA scienceNOW segment about the reappearance of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, the enchanting bird believed extinct.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3302/03.html
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Has Returned
Nature Conservancy feature about the confirmation of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's return to the Big Woods of Arkansas.
www.nature.org/ivorybill
Steve's Book of the Not-So-Grateful Dead: Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers
Examines the mysterious case of campephilus principalis, a type of woodpecker once known to inhabit the Southern United States, and whose extinction is now under debate.
www.aristotle.net/~swarmack/ivory.html
Is the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Extinct?
Examines reports of rumored sightings of the rare ivory bills in Southern United States.
www.anomalist.com/reports/woodpecker.html