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off topic: challenge to Ivory billed siting

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Philip Webre

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Philip Webre

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Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:14:42 -0400

From science Magazine

Hatching doubts. This April, a team of scientists declared they had rediscovered the ivory-billed woodpecker, long thought to be extinct. Now three other ornithologists are taking issue with one line of evidence, a grainy video. In a paper in press at PLOS Biology, they argue that the bird in the video is actually a pileated woodpecker. Stay tuned for full analysis.