Fwd: 3 Biologists Question Evidence in Sighting of Rare Woodpecker

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: July 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/science/21bird.html

Three biologists are questioning the evidence used by a team of bird
experts who made the electrifying claim in April that they had
sighted an ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird presumed to have vanished
from the United States more than 60 years ago, in the swampy forests
of southeast Arkansas.