is the ivory billed woodpecker extinct
For 50 years the ivory-billed woodpecker has been widely considered extinct. But the Elvis of the bird-watching world is alive in eastern Arkansas, bird experts announced today.(Watch a video on the discovery from the Nature Conservancy [requires Windows Media Player ].).his really is the holy grail.. Among the world's largest woodpeckers, the ivory-bill is one of six North American bird species suspected or known to have gone extinct since 1880. The last conclusive sighting of the woodpecker was in Louisiana in 1944.