A specimen of an ivory-billed woodpecker is displayed at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. New video and photographs claiming to show ivory-billed woodpeckers flying in a Louisiana forest have been published by the researchers. The government officials will take a final decision on whether the birds will be extinct by the end of the year. Nearly 80 years after the last agreed-upon sightings in Louisiana, tantalizing hints of the potential existence of the large woodpecker are provided by the images captured by drones and trail cameras. Several experts are believed to have added to prior indications of … Continue reading The Lord God Bird Returns: Rediscovering the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker