Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

An interesting story for birders and non-birders alike...
(Props to Freeze for the link)

Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Cornell Lab of Ornithology: "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 announced that at least one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest."...

"It is a landmark rediscovery," said Scott Simon, director of The Nature Conservancy's Arkansas chapter. "Finding the ivory-bill in Arkansas validates decades of great conservation work and represents an incredible story of hope for the future."...