The pileated woodpecker is common depending on your geographic location! the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct and if you spotted one in your backyard or anywhere else on earth: no you didn't, you saw a pileated woodpecker
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in reply to @Webster's post:
damn, savage. not even if you happen to be standing in a swamp in Louisiana at the time? do you think any of the sightings in the US post 1944 were real?
Possibly! But I at minimum do not think any of the sightings in the united states post 2000 were real.
fair enough haha
it's pretty telling that we have millions of cheap and readily available cameras all over the freaking place and nobody can get a pic of one. but also, how many people are actually looking?
a small but vocal minority of twitchers who want to be famous. i wouldn't feel so strongly about it if they weren't constantly wasting the IUCN's time, and i'd be thrilled to be proven wrong, but in the meantime i find them about as believable as bigfoot sightings.
The folks who have been looking claim they've found something. I haven't yet read the paper.