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Published online 16 March 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060313-14
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Ivory-billed woodpecker extinct after all?
Ornithologists dispute video evidence of elusive bird.
The ivory-billed woodpecker may have faded back into extinction. After more than a year of debate over whether a video taken in an Arkansas swamp really does show a surviving member of the species, a team of ornithologists and bird watchers have weighed in with a "devastating" critique.
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