Researchers and volunteers in eastern Arkansas set out on foot and in canoes, hoping to find the elusive - and some say extinct - Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Jorge Ribas reports.
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Researchers and volunteers in eastern Arkansas set out on foot and in canoes, hoping to find the elusive - and some say extinct - Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Jorge Ribas reports.
Added: Jul 30, 2009
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