The decades-long search for evidence of living ivory-billed woodpeckers awaits a decision this spring from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on video evidence that the species has survived.

An illustration of the ivory-billed woodpecker, featured in the 1825 book, “The birds of North America.” Credit: Biodiversity Heritage Library/Public Domain Every so often, there’s a claim that the ...

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 ...

If you ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct. It’s been more than half a century since anyone has seen the iconic animal, which was last officially spotted in ...

A Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct is getting some pushback from those who maintain the species lives on. A Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to ...

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 ...

Its call penetrated the forest, the two-note rap of its jackhammer-like bill helped pinpoint its location and a scraping sound could be heard as the hungry woodpecker peeled bark from dying trees to ...

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), ...

The “Lord God bird” may have risen from the dead. Ornithologists say the ivory-billed woodpecker -- given its divine-sounding nickname because of its large size -- may still be out there in remote ...