Alive and Knocking: Glimpses of an ivory-billed legend

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.