Ivory-bills in the 21st century

摘要

Mainstream media stories and some other resources about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker often cite 1944 as the year of the last widely accepted sighting of the species. That was the year artist Donald Eckelberry observed a female Ivory-bill in the SingerTract in Louisiana and made sketches of the bird and an iconic painting showing her flying through a forest of bare trees and stumps.