Ivory billed woodpecker survives

Yes!!

Brinkley, Arkansas—April 28, 2005—Long believed to be extinct, a magnificent bird – the ivory-billed woodpecker – has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas. More than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the species in the United States, a research team today announced that at least one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest.

From the Nature Conservancy press release

posted April 29, 2005