Where is that woodpecker?
Another expert pours cold water on claims to have rediscovered the Ivory-billed woodpecker, reports Roger Highfield
When bird watchers glimpsed a giant woodpecker thought to have been extinct for more than half a century, the miraculous resurrection made an inspirational story that captured headlines around the world and marked a symbolic victory for conservationists.
The Ivory-billed woodpecker was considered extinct until it flapped back onto the scene, blurrily, in a controversial videotape shot in an Arkansas swamp in 2004. Bird watchers had likened the hunt for the bird to the quest for the Holy Grail and were reduced to tears at the sensational sight of the majestic bird "rising Lazarus-like from the grave".
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