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A 2019 five-year review by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service recommended that the ivory-billed woodpecker be removed from the Endangered Species List due to extinction, and in September 2021, the USFWS proposed that the species be delisted and declared extinct.
On April 29, 2005, a team from Cornell Lab of Ornithology claimed they had taken a four-second video and recorded audio calls of the ivory-billed woodpecker, believed extinct for 60 years, in the refuge. The woodpecker has not been seen since and whether it was actually seen in 2005 remains a source of considerable debate.
In 2021, the agency seemed ready to declare the so-called Lord God Bird extinct: The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to remove 23 species, including the ivory-billed woodpecker, from ...
“The ivory-billed woodpecker was symbolic of the endangered species in America for a very long time and a lot of people, myself included in the late 60s and early 70s, were inspired by the ...
The status of one bird on the list, the ivory-billed woodpecker, is controversial. Until 2005, the bird was widely considered to be extinct. In April of that year, it was reported that at least one adult male bird had been sighted in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. The report, however, has not been universally accepted ...
Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct. The ivory-billed woodpecker ...
The nominate subspecies, the American ivory-billed woodpecker (C. p. principalis), is officially classified as critically endangered and considered possibly extinct by some authorities. The Cuban ivory-billed woodpecker (C. p. bairdii) is generally considered to be extinct, but a few patches of unsurveyed potential habitat remain.
But to Sykes, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist then based in Delray Beach, it sounded like the recordings he’d heard of the spectral ivory-billed woodpecker. It was 1967, more than 20 ...