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Video News Release

View a video about the rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the Big Woods of Arkansas. April 28, 2005.

News Conference

A jubliant search team, joined by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, announces that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker still lives. April, 28, 2005.

The 1935 Cornell Expedition

Original footage from an expedition to film Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in the Singer Tract of Louisiana. A mule-drawn cart carried the cumbersome equipment into the swamp.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker in 1935

An Ivory-billed Woodpecker at its nest cavity, filmed by Cornell Lab of Ornithology founder Arthur Allen and colleagues in Louisiana.


Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 2004

University of Arkansas professor David Luneau captured a brief video clip using a continuously recording video camera on April 25, 2005. Subsequent analysis showed that the bird was an Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

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