Fast Facts --

In the early 1900s, conservationists warned of the impending extinction of the Ivory-billed woodpecker.

From 1937 to 1939, James Tanner, a young doctoral student at Cornell University, researched the Ivory-billed woodpeckers of the Singer Tract.

Prior to the 2004 discovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker at Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas, this was the last authenticated sighting of the bird in the United States.

News Releases

Official press releases and advisories from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service --

• Ivory-billed Woodpecker Search Summary for 2007– Elusive Bird Spotted But Not Confirmed this Year -- September 26, 2007
• Ivory-billed Woodpecker Search Season Ends in Arkansas -- May 18, 2006
• Georgia DNR and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Survey Remote Habitat for Evidence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker -- April 10, 2006
• Deputy Interior Secretary Announces president to See More Than $2.1 Million for Ivory-billed Woodpecker in 2007 Budget -- February 24, 2006
• Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Begins this Year in Arkansas -- December 12, 2005
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Major Land Conservation Purchase
  $2.4 million in duck stamp funds to add 1,800 acres to Cache River National Wildlife Refuge -- September 27, 2005
• Waterfowl Hunting to Proceed; Fish and Wildlife Service Takes Big Step to Resume Public Use of Managed Access Area at Cache River National Wildlife Refuge -- September 26, 2005
• No Changes Planned for Public Access at White River National Wildlife Refuge-- August 2, 2005
• Partners Establish Protocol to Report Sightings of Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -- June 16, 2005
• Fish and Wildlife Service, Partners Announce Formation of Ivory-billed Woodpecker Recovery Team -- May 25, 2005
• Public Invited To Learn About Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Discovery at Cache River NWR, Next Steps in Recovery Effort -- May 5, 2005
• Media Advisory: Questions answered relating to the discovery of the Ivory-billed woodpecker at Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas -- April 28, 2005
• Once-thought Extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Rediscovered in Arkansas -- Federal Government and Partners Form Rapid Response Partnership to Support Recovery of Bird -- April 28, 2005
• Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Scientists, Partners to Announce Dramatic Rediscovery of a Species Previously Believed to be Extinct -- April 28, 2005

Partners Press Releases --
See what our partners are saying about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

Texas A&M University and the University of California, Berkeley -- Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker (pdf)

Greenwire -- NASA joins search for Ark. ivory-billed woodpecker (pdf file)

NASA -- NASA Laser Casts Its Light Searching for 'Extinct' Woodpecker -- August 2, 2006

National Audubon Magazine

Audubon Arkansas -- June 10, 2005 (pdf) or (Word)

US Army Corps of Engineers -- Memphis District

• Biological Assessment finds Grand Prairie Project unlikely to adversely affect ivory-billed woodpecker -- June 3, 2005
• Conservationists, state and federal agencies meet on future of woodpecker recovery effort -- May 27, 2005
• Corps of Engineers will conduct biological assessment for ivory-billed woodpecker -- May 13, 2005
• Corps of Engineers will work with environmental agencies to protect endangered woodpecker -- May 4, 2005

Big Woods Conservation Partners -- visit their press room

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

The Nature Conservancy -- listing of IBW releases

Duck Unlimited

• Ducks Unlimited to Plant Record Number of Trees in Arkansas -- July 11, 2005

Cornell University

• News Release -- August 24, 2005