BRINKLEY -- Beginning in 2004, a storm came over Brinkley. A distinctly ivory-billed one, that is. Hundreds of people flocked to the small town after a reported sighting of the critically-endangered ...

Q. What is the status of the ivory-billed woodpecker? Some sources say it’s extinct. Others say it is rare but still exists. A. Most, though not all, ornithologists I know believe the ivory-billed ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US wildlife officials ...

The news, which came to me in a cryptic telephone call one day this past February, was electrifying: the ivory-billed woodpecker, mourned as extinct for more than 60 years, had been found in the swamp ...

The images — grainy and taken from a distance by drones and trail cameras — offer tantalizing hints the large woodpecker may yet exist almost 80 years after the last agreed-upon sightings, in ...

For the bird-watching establishment, it was a stunning revelation. Fifty years after most ornithologists had written off the ivory-billed woodpecker as extinct, a sharp-eyed forestry student reported ...