Research Forester John Ross came to work one day at Jones State Forest to discover a busload of foreigners at his front door. "Hey, mate, we're looking for the red-cockaded woodpecker," said a member ...

Biologists were surprised to hear recently that a once-rare woodpecker had been spotted in a forest west of Columbia for the first time in 50 years. But in checking things out, they verified that a ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) – Smokey Bear has done such a good job stamping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that’s survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees ...

THOMASVILLE, GA — Discover one of the Southeast’s rarest birds up close during a unique, hands-on conservation program at Pebble Hill Plantation at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 10. Join noted wildlife ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker, a majestic bird long thought to be extinct and long pursued by ornithologists, has been sighted in eastern Arkansas, scientists announced last month. Fifteen sightings, ...

BRINKLEY, Ark. — For the last three years, researchers in camouflage and waders have slogged through the east Arkansas woods hoping to spot a rare bird that so far seems unwilling to be seen. Some ...

It's called "The Grail Bird," a bird so rare, so sought after that it's considered the Holy Grail of ornithology. In fact, the ivory-billed woodpecker had been thought to be extinct for more than half ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — 2 NEWS has received numerous reports of what viewers thought to be the presumed extinct Ivory-billed woodpecker, but experts say it is actually a similar woodpecker that is ...

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