Back from the Dead the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

The last known individual of Campephilus principalis perished in 1944. On a recent kayaking trip in Eastern Arkansas Gene Sparling spotted a bird which he identified as a male Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, additional sightings were made a few days later by an experienced ornithologists from Corell University. A brief four second video was taken of a fleeing bird, identified as a Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Reminiscent of Bigfoot footage, the bird in the video is blurred and pixilated owing to rapid motion, slow shutter speed, video interlacing artifacts, and the bird's distance. Images from the video can be seen at Science Magazine's Website. I am hopeful that the species is back from extinction.