Ivory-billed woodpeckers make a unique double-knock noise when pecking at trees, and this sound may be a crucial aid to identifying any surviving birds. A recent recording may have captured this ...

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Well, it now appears that the ivory-billed woodpecker does exist. The three skeptics who had questioned the evidence presented in a Science paper that the birds were living in an Arkansas swamp now ...

Based on the bird’s size and long neck, Michaels first presumed he was looking at a duck. But then he noticed it intermittently tucking its wings during flight, something he says that ducks don’t ...

BILLINGS, Mont.--Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct. It’s a ...

He would soon head south to the backwood swamps of Osceola County, Florida, to search for a ghost bird: the ivory-billed woodpecker. Most scientists considered it extinct; Allen was desperate to ...

There are only a handful of birds that elicit pure excitement and joy when it shows up at your backyard feeding station. The pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) is our largest woodpecker ...

But in a process designed specifically for birds, researchers plan on sequencing the genome before sequencing the DNA of all ...

the red skin color of the head contrasts with the ivory bill and dark feather ruff on the neck. Juvenile: the skin of the head is dark, the bill dark with a pale base. Flight: a large dark bird ...

Species being proposed for delisting include the ivory-billed woodpecker, Bachman’s warbler, Scioto madtom, San Marcos gambusia, eight species of Southeastern freshwater mussels, eight birds and a ...