There is actually a book about searching for the ivory bill called search for the holy grail, or something like.
I was goofing off at work when I first ran across this news.
I swear I teared up and had to stop myself from crying.
Yeah, a bit or an over reaction, maybe, but it was like there might be some hope for us after all.

While it does sound a little sketchy, the idea of a creature that we thought was extinct NOT being extinct sounds amazing. I hope they find more on this.

Isn't this rather old? I heard about this a few months ago. At any rate if true it helps support the idea that extinct beasts can be erroneously classified as such.
Ceolacanth, ceolacanth, ceolacanth!

The only way to tell if a species is extinct is to investigate the number of sightings of a species over a given time period (and that there no specimens of the species exist in captivity). But I think that for some species, such as birds, small mammals etc, it is entirely possible for there to be a few specimens in the wild that have not been seen by humans (and remember, the species would have to be seen by a human that would recognize the species) for very long periods of time, so the extinction label would be incorrect, as it appears to be in this case.

Oh I agree. I think the key phrase then would be believed to be extinct..

Help me out guys, I am ready for bed, and my brain isn't working. There was a show on Cable, a bunch of cryptos looking for proof that this or that was real.. There was a guy and a girl, and a talking head old man who tried to sound scarey, but came off as very annoying..
You all know what show I am talking about..

Anyway, they were to Ozland looking for the Tazzy Tiger, and because of so many reports about scat being dog scat, they decided to test the testing lab, and sent in tiger feces.
And the report came back it was dog feces.
The concusion was that they were either very incompetant, or covering something up. Does anyone know of a follow up to this? A new thread could be started, I suppose. I don't want to hijack this one.

The point that I was trying to make, is the Tazzy is believed to be extinct, BELIEVED, but there have been sightings by many many people over the years, some very poor pictures taken, a film of something that COULD have been one ect ect..
However, There COULD be Tazzy;'s out there. The placxe is large enough, and sparcely populated enough that enough of the Tazzys could have hid.. I mean these arepeditors, and one doesn't get to be the apex predotior, (before the ancestors of the dingos arrived) without being smart.
With some creatures, extinction is a certainty, the dodo, the stellar sea cow..
I still hold out hope for the passenger pigeon, I mean, really, who could tell one from the ordinary winged rat? And didn't they rediscover the quagga? Or was I dreaming that?
And I believe there are Tazzys out there as well. That we could rediscover the Ivory Bill is a miracle in of itself, and like I said, makes me feel like there s hope.

Thanks for the insightfull post.
I am sory, however, that I can not offer anything in return.
I did not see the show.