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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Biologists and amateurs toting some of the fanciest gear in Congaree National Park are trying to find the rarest of woodpeckers among some of the nation's tallest and oldest trees.
No one has seen an ivory-billed woodpecker around here since 1930s, but avid birders aren't about to stop looking.
In December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's South Carolina office got $75,000 to perform the first scientific search for the ivory bill outside Arkansas, where a Cache River sighting ignited interest in a bird thought by some to be extinct.
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