News Story from The Cornell Daily Sun
March 13, 2007 - 5:01am
By Jennifer Kahn
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When looking for a needle in a 550,000 acre haystack, otherwise known as the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas, it takes a collaborative effort from top ornithologists and engineers. This is especially true when the needle is the ivory-billed woodpecker, one of the world’s rarest and most elusive birds. The last uncontested sighting of the bird was in 1944.