Actually, it's never been reliably confirmed from any of the scientific reports I've read. Maybe they do still exist and I want to believe it, but so do a lot o

Actually, it's never been reliably confirmed from any of the scientific reports I've read. Maybe they do still exist and I want to believe it, but so do a lot of other people and that may be skewing the evidence. Just some blurry pictures and video[0] (from 2005) that some have inferred shows its flight pattern is that of an ivory billed and not of a pileated. > "Like many in the conservation arena, the Fish and Wildlife Service was hopeful that field searches would lead to additional evidence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas and other parts of its historic range. Additional evidence was collected during the past four years (including both auditory encounters and sightings concentrated in certain areas). This additional evidence supports the hypothesis that Ivory-billed Woodpeckers continue to exist in Arkansas and other parts of the range. However, due to the inability to reliably locate birds, we cannot at this time conclude that a population of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers is established in this region."[1] [0] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/308/5727/1460/suppl/DC1 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/308/5727/1460/suppl/DC1 [1] http://www.fws.gov/ivorybill/ http://www.fws.gov/ivorybill/