A 4-second video released last week and reports of brief glimpses by seven observers have convinced many biologists and birders that the famed ivory-billed woodpecker has not gone extinct after all.
BIG BIRD. An ivory-billed woodpecker in a 1930s photograph, with color added, shows the distinctive white on its back and lower wings.
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