The ivory-billed woodpecker was the classic... people really thought it was gone.

The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

The thrilling new sound recordings provide clear and convincing evidence that the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct.

It shows some things can hang in there and with the right effort you can make the future for some species more secure. This is why conservation agencies work.

The video shows white tipped with black, exactly what we reproduced with a model ivory-billed wing.

Merchant-Ivory, who put up the money for the film, had hired me to do a 'behind-the-scenes' on one of their films, Le Divorce , and Glenn (Close) was in that,