Ivory-billed woodpeckers

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction. The highly sought-after Ivory-billed Woodpecker was expected to be on that list. But due to accumulating evidence possibly proving the bird persists in certain Southern bottomland forests, Ivorybills were given a temporary stay.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will soon decide whether to terminate federal protections for giant ivory-billed woodpeckers, due to lack of definitive evidence revealing the species continues to persist in remote forested swamps of eastern Arkansas and northern Louisiana.