by:The Associated Press
Posted:May 19, 2023 / 08:52 AM EDT
Updated:May 19, 2023 / 11:35 AM EDT
LOUISIANA (AP) — New video and photographs purporting to showivory-billed woodpeckersflying in a Louisiana forest were published by researchers on Thursday, as government officials said they will make a final decision this year onwhether the birds are extinct.Ford recalls 310,000 trucks
The images — grainy and taken from a distance by drones and trail cameras — offer tantalizing hints the large woodpecker may yet exist almost 80 years after the last agreed-upon sightings, in Louisiana.
Several experts said it adds toprior indicationsof their survival. They called on the government to drop the pending proposal to write off the so-called Lord God Bird — a nickname derived from the exclamation some viewers made upon seeing one.
But others dismissedthe new researchas inconclusive, including…
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