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Published online 21 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050718-10
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Ivory-billed woodpecker under scrutiny
Rediscovered species may not be out of the woods.
A team of bird experts is questioning the reported discovery of an ivory-billed woodpecker, a species that until recently was thought to be extinct.
Conservationists and bird lovers were thrilled in April by a videotape, reported in Science1, of what seemed to be an ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) in Arkansas.
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