The ivory-billed woodpecker -- known for its bright red cockade, white wing patches and long ivory bill -- was native to the bottomland forests and the extensive pine forests in the southern U.S ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world's third largest woodpecker was ...

As a collective notion, woodpeckers are one of the more familiar bird families. The general idea is clear enough: ...

Federal wildlife officials said Monday they are delaying a long-awaited decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct ... accepted sighting of the red-crowned bird species was in ...