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2007

• Footing the bill could become problem in woodpecker hunt, Beaumont Enterprise, December 30, 2007
• Tapping away at a mystery, The Free Lance-Star, November 5, 2007
• The bird is still the word, Arkansas Times, September 6, 2007
• Agency releases woodpecker recovery plan, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, August 23, 2007
• Water project not a risk to rare bird, agency says, Arkansas Democrat Gazette August 3, 2007
• Giving up the ghost? Audubon Magazine, July-August 2007
• The chance of a lifetime, Audubon Magazine (web), July-August 2007
• "York graduate student investigates elusive Ivory-billed Woodpecker,"York University, June 15, 2007
• Extinct" bird species lives, Voice of America, May 30, 2007
• Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Dead of Alive?, Discovery Channel podcast, May, 21, 2007
• Ivory-bill search continues, Discovery Channel podcast, April 20, 2007
• Birding Magazine, multiple articles about the bird and the search, March/April 2007
• A bird worthy of Melville, St. Petersburg Times, March 3, 2007
• Dr. John Fitzpatrick: Harvard Magazine profile, Harvard Magazine, March-April 2007
• Robotic cameras search for ivory-billed woodpecker, UC Berkeley, February 17, 2007
• Robotic cameras join search for "Holy Grail" of bird watching, CCNews Magazine, February 17, 2007
• Chance for look at really rare bird, Akron Beacon Journal, January 22, 2007

• Two Arkansas men report possible sighting of rare woodpecker, Newsday (AP), December 15, 2006

• Yes, South Carolina: Ivory-billed Woodpecker exists, researcher says, Rock Hill Herald, November 14, 2006
• New search sought for bird, The Advocate, November 13, 2006

• Woodpecker mystery lands in Bluffton, The Island Packet, October 22, 2006

• Rare bird is "seen" in Florida, Gulf Times, September 29, 2006
• Scientists spy Ivory-bill Woodpecker in Florida, Scientific American.com, September 28, 2006
• A flash of white, and then it's gone, Casper Star-Tribune, September 28, 2006
• Hunt for Ivory-billed Woodpecker to continue in Arkansas, Baxter Bulletin (AP), Setpember 27, 2006
• New claim for evidence of ivory-bills, New York Times, September 26, 2006

• NASA joins hunt for woodpecker, Discovery Channel, August 14, 2006
• University of Maryland and NASA researchers use laser sensor to map possible habitat for Ivory-billed Woodpecker, University of Maryland news release, August 3, 2006

July 2006

• Ivory-billed Woodpecker deflates river-tapping project, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, July 21, 2006

• Genetic study of endangered Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Smithsonian, July 21, 2006

• Exhibit explores ivory-bill mystery, Harvard University Gazette, June 1, 2006

• "Researchers to scale back hunt for bird," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, May 19, 2006
• "Second field season fails to find the Ivory-billed Woodpecker," New York Times, May 19, 2006
• "Extinct or Possibly Extinct?" Science, May 19, 2006

• Cornell and members of the Big Woods Conservation Partnership respond to Perspectives article by Jerome Jackson. Read letter, as printed in The Auk, April 2006.
• "Woodpecker search takes break till fall," Arkansas Leader, April 26, 2006
• "In search of an elusive woodpecker," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 19, 2006

• "Cornell Lab of Ornithology counters famous birder's interpretation of fleeting woodpecker video," Cornell Chronicle, March 21, 2006
• "Ivory-billed  Woodpecker Debate Heats up," Live Science, March 17, 2006
• "Arkansas unfazed by woodpecker article," Associated Press, March 17, 2006
• "Doubt Cast on Ivory-billed Woodpecker Video," National Public Radio, March 17, 2006
• "The Ivory-billed Debate," New York Times Television, March 16, 2006
• "Biologists, amateurs start  Congaree search for rare woodpecker," Myrtle Beach Sun News, March 6, 2006
• Avian Conservation and Ecology: Addresses the challenges and dilemmas facing conservation following the ivory-bill rediscovery.
• NOVA, Watch a segment about the ivory-bill and click on "Ask the Experts" for Q & A

Stories about the Rediscovery

• 60 Minutes:  "Finding the 'Lord God Bird'," October 16, 2005
• Science: "Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) Persists in Continental North America," April 28, 2005
• The New York Times: "Deep in the Swamp, an 'Extinct' Woodpecker Lives," April 29, 2005
• Washington Post: "Extinct? After 60 Years, Woodpecker Begs to Differ," April 29, 2005
• NPR Morning Edition: "The Future of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker," April 29, 2005
• The New York Times: "The Woodpecker in All of Us," May 3, 2005
• Science News Online: "The Comeback Bird," June 11, 2005

• Audubon: "The Best-Kept Secret," July 2005

• WSKG: "A Man in Search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker," July 12, 2005

• Birder's World: "Now What?" August 2005
• USA Today:  "In Search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker," November 9, 2005

• The New York Times: "Vindication for a Bird and Its Fans," August 2, 2005

Stories about the audio

• NPR All Things Considered: "Challenge to Woodpecker Rediscovery is Dropped," August 2, 2005

• Bloomberg News: "Knock Knock Recordings May Be Echos of Ivory-Bill Woodpecker," August 24, 2005
• NPR Radio Expeditions: "Audio Evidence of Ivory-billed Woodpecker," August 25, 2005
• The New York Times: "Birders Hear Call Linked to Good News on Ivory Bill," August 25, 2005
• USA Today: "Scientists Present Rare Woodpecker Recordings," August 25, 2005
• BBC News: "'Lost Bird's' Distinctive Knocks," August 25, 2005

• Volunteer Steve Kinder article in the Constitution-Tribune, March 9, 2006
  

• "Ornithologist stays hot on the trail of a special species," San Diego Union-Tribune, March 8, 20006
• "Author says ivory-bill is alive here!" Arkansas Leader, March 8, 2006
• "News of woodpecker packs Science Museum," The Buffalo News, March 1, 2006
  

• "Vermont Biologists Join Search for Rare Woodpecker", Vermont Institute of Natural Science, February 16, 2006
• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, "Keeping the Faith in the Lord God Bird," February 2, 2006
  

• New York Times, "Ivory-bill Report is Called "Faith-based Ornithology," January 24, 2006 (fee)

• Charlotte Observer, "S.C.'s hunt for woodpecker," December 4, 2005
• Chicago Tribune, "Birders flock to meet rock star of the conservation world," December 5, 2005
• CNN.com, "Searchers hunt 'Elvis' woodpecker," December 11, 2005
  

• "Evidence on the Wing: Cornell Lab of Ornithology Director Presents New Proof That Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Exists"
• "Researcher Gives Frame-by-Frame Analysis of Disputed Woodpecker Video, and Insists It Shows the Real Thing"
• "Ivory-Bill or Not? The Proof Flits Tantalizingly Out of Sight"

Just for fun

The rediscovery of the ivory-bill has captured imaginations around the world, and spawned everything from the hometown “ivory-bill burger,” and “ivory-bill haircut,” to fine art and numerous knick-knacks. A song has even been written about it—listen in on NPR’s All Things Considered.