The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed ... any surviving birds. A recent recording may have captured ...

Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds ... making unconfirmed appearances in recent decades that ignited a frenzy of ultimately fruitless ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker was once the US's largest woodpecker species but the last commonly agreed sighting was in 1944 in Louisiana. The species was officially listed as endangered in 1967.

The ivory-billed woodpecker was thought to have duck-like flaps in which the wings remain extended throughout the flap cycle. One of the videos revealed radically different flaps in which the ...