Natural History Wanderings

The Guardian reports

In terms of elusiveness, it is the Bigfoot or Loch Ness monster of the bird world, so rare and undetectable that the US government declared it extinct last year. But the ivory-billed woodpecker is, in fact, still alive and pecking in the forests of Louisiana, a team of researchers has claimed.

Read more at  Back from the dead? Elusive ivory-billed woodpecker not extinct, researchers say | Endangered species | The Guardian