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Still looking for that woodpecker

An expensive recovery plan to save the ivory-billed woodpecker from extinction may come decades too late.

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Dalton, R. Still looking for that woodpecker. Nature 463, 718–719 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463718a

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