This bird is extinct, the government says. Not everyone is so sure.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Steven Latta was trudging through the wet bottomlands of Louisiana when he spotted it: A flash of “brilliant white” rising toward the sky.

To him, the sight was unmistakable: It was the black-and-white plumage of an ivory-billed woodpecker.

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The government, however, says the bird does not exist.

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But dozens of professional ornithologists and amateur birdwatchers claim the bird is still out there, pecking away undetected after the last undisputed sighting in 1944.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/19/ivory-billed-woodpecker-extinct/

[MiHale]

1. I am not going to say peckerhead...

[cyclonefence]

2. There have been reported sightings over the past ten years or so

I hope hope hope this rascal is still out there. Or we could get a pileated. a bottle of Clorox and some black shoe polish ...