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Published online 2 August 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050801-4
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Ivory-billed woodpecker raps on
Sound tapes convince critics of the bird's survival.
Evidence has come to light that the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), once thought extinct, is alive and well in Arkansas.
A sound recording of the woodpecker's distinctive call and tree rapping has convinced even some of the harshest sceptics that at least two of the birds are indeed still around.
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