Defenders' Experts
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
"With the apparent re-discovery of a very few Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in both Arkansas and Florida, Defenders will closely track this extraordinarily rare bird's conservation future.
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Draft Recovery Plan
On August 22, 2007 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a recovery plan for the ivory-billed woodpecker .
Read Defenders' view of the plan in our October 5, 2007 publication: Technical Comments on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Ivory-billed Woodpecker Draft Recovery Plan
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Federal and state agencies, non-governmental conservation organizations, and even private citizens are fanning out across the southeastern United States to search for more woodpeckers.
Disputes about the quality of evidence for the woodpecker's presence have arisen, however, and searches by researchers are continuing (for example, the article Evidence Suggesting that Ivory-billed Woodpeckers Exist in Florida).
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